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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Frank Feighan: ...University, ATU, which we are very proud of, offers a number of part-time education courses. Often, however, students who are part-time cannot access Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, grants. We have to address this to make sure that people who choose part-time education, either because they already have a job or are carers, benefit from these State supports to complete their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Third Level Costs (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ...there is now a new grant on top of that of €500 towards the undergraduate student contribution fee. This, effectively, cuts their fees in half. I have made increases to student maintenance grants among a number of improvements to the SUSI scheme, increasing all student grants from January, and restoring for the first time since the financial crash the postgraduate maintenance...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (27 Feb 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

Ruairi Ó Murchú: I welcome the fact the Minister is talking about dealing with some of the inadequacies that exist in the SUSI Act. I wonder how the parameters of some of the supports will work for these students, which is something we have to look at. We are talking about fairness across the board and ensuring as many people as possible can engage with regard to disabilities. When I spoke to those...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Student Visas (27 Feb 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Gary Gannon: 4. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he and his Department will consider removing the eligibility criteria exclusion of the category of parents of an Irish citizen for SUSI applications in relation to persons with permission to remain under a stamp 4 visa. [9088/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (Resumed) (27 Feb 2024)

...part of our Brexit planning in the context of the Student Support Act. Normally, the criteria were such that someone living in Ireland or elsewhere in the EU or the EEA would be eligible for the SUSI grant, but we made a series of amendments to the legislation to make sure that would apply to somebody living in Ireland, elsewhere in the EU or the UK. We had taken steps in advance,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Accommodation (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ...The Government also approved an extension of the rent-a-room relief scheme to disregard income earned when determining medical card eligibility and when examining reckonable income for support under the SUSI grant scheme. In addition, the scheme has been extended to allow local authority tenants to participate from the 1st December 2023. This will be on an administrative basis initially,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (27 Feb 2024)

Niall Collins: ...Post Leaving Certificate (PLC) and other programmes such as the Back to Education Initiative and Community Education. Students pursuing PLC courses may qualify for maintenance grants under the SUSI PLC Grant Scheme if they satisfy the scheme conditions. The €200 PLC levy was removed with effect from September 2022 and Budget 2024 has provided for PLC fees to be removed with effect...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Costs (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ..., residency, previous academic attainment and means. The decision on eligibility for a student grant is a matter, in the first instance, for the centralised student grant awarding authority SUSI (Student Universal Support Ireland) to determine. In general, Irish students who choose to study in the UK can apply to SUSI for a maintenance grant provided they meet the terms and conditions of...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Agriculture Schemes (22 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Alan Dillon: ...payment in 2024; the level of tax disregards applied to ACRES payments; whether he has engaged with other Departments on this matter; whether he has considered the possible impact on thresholds for SUSI applications for some farmers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8520/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (20 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Holly Cairns: 647. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether he would review the internal process within SUSI for classifying students under 23 years of age as being irreconcilably estranged from their parents; if he is aware that students who have become estranged from their parents after having aged out of TUSLA’s remit, must receive a court order to prove their estrangement; if...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (13 Feb 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Richard Bruton: 612. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 57 of 31 January 2024, the reason SUSI is refusing to accept child benefit as proof of residence for a home-schooled Irish born child of a resident Irish citizen, despite the fact that under statute such payments can only be made on Irish residency. [6057/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (13 Feb 2024)

Neasa Hourigan: ...ask the Minister for Education and Skills the work that has been undertaken to include payments incurred by families under the fair deal scheme for care in the consideration of eligibility for the SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6450/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (13 Feb 2024)

Cathal Crowe: ...To ask the Minister for Education and Skills in view of the shortage of medical doctors and nurses in Ireland, if he will give consideration to introducing an additional qualification category for SUSI grants so that students who have already completed a QQI level 8 degree, and are undertaking an additional postgraduate course to train as a medical doctor or nurse (also QQI level 8)...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: North-South Student Mobility: Discussion (13 Feb 2024)

..., we must first look at the issues of clarity and limited awareness of available opportunities among students. If students look at the cost of studying in the North, there is a common misconception that SUSI can cover the cost of tuition and maintenance as if they were to go to any other college in the Republic of Ireland. While clarity around stuff like this can be found, unless you...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion (7 Feb 2024)

..., is in a nursing home, under the fair deal scheme, and you have young adults in the house who are going to college. That fair deal contribution that the family is making is not deductible for SUSI grants, or it had not been the last time I looked at the scheme. I wish to make the important point that the fair deal model was designed for older people and not for younger people with...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ..., residency, previous academic attainment and means. The decision on eligibility for a student grant is a matter, in the first instance, for the centralised student grant awarding authority SUSI (Student Universal Support Ireland) to determine. The definition of an approved institution is set out in Section 7 of the Student Support Act 2011 and Regulation 3 of the Student Support...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Home Schooling (31 Jan 2024)

Denis Naughten: 57. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason SUSI is refusing to accept child benefit as proof of residence for a home-schooled Irish-born child of a resident Irish citizen, despite the fact that under statute such payments can only be made on Irish residency; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4522/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (31 Jan 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...and training through the Back to Education scheme, as well as by referrals to Education and Training Board courses through the Department's Intreo service. In addition, income received from the SUSI grant is disregarded in the means test for most social welfare schemes. Disregards across all of the Department's schemes are kept under constant review and just last November I signed...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Third Level Fees (30 Jan 2024)

Alice-Mary Higgins: ...highlight the extremely urgent issues and problems with the current fee model for graduate medical studies in this State. In their letter they highlighted that: "GEM students are not eligible for SUSI (or any other similar student financial support schemes), and since 2022 have had no access to any private medicine-specic loan services." This is following the end of the Bank of Ireland...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (25 Jan 2024)

Simon Harris: ...with its own criteria. The Deputy will be aware that there are supports available to students undertaking postgraduate study. In Budget 2024, the Government announced a once off increase in the SUSI postgraduate fee grant support of €1,000, bringing the grant support up to €5,000. From this month, we have also reintroduced SUSI maintenance grant supports for qualifying...