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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: Will I have adequate time to ensure I get answers to the questions I ask?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: It is important on behalf of the hundreds of students who have contacted us that we get the questions answered today.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: Was the scanning facility for applicants considered prior to the system roll-out? If so, why was it not implemented?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: When questions are asked in groups, we are not getting answers. Could I have answer to that question? Will deploying additional staff ensure the problem is sorted before Christmas? It is not acceptable that only 30,000 grants will be paid by the end of the year. That leaves thousands more without payment. What are those people to do? Are the systems in place not adequate to sort out...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: I wish to clarify that I am not asking a supplementary question but restating questions that were not answered. Can I have a guarantee from the Chairman that my questions will be answered?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: There is no point-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: The last time I asked questions I did not get answers. Is the Chairman going to accept that from the witnesses?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: It is an online application system. Surely that would have been one of SUSI's priorities at the outset?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: I asked five questions in total, for which I seek answers.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: I also asked whether Ms Stewart would now acknowledge the system is not working.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: This is fundamental to making progress.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: An acknowledgment that the system is not working is fundamental to making progress on this issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: If the witnesses will not acknowledge that, members are all wasting their time here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: The questions on lost documentation, waiting times and staffing issues were not adequately answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: Some were not answered at all.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: There is no point in asking questions if they are not going to be answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: What is the point of asking questions if they are not going to be answered? Members came to this meeting to act on behalf of the hundreds and probably thousands of people, collectively, who have asked them to scrutinise the system, but the questions are not being answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: What is the point of asking such questions if members are not going to get the answers?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: These questions should be answered.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection: Student Grant Application System: Discussion with SUSI (13 Nov 2012)
Brendan Griffin: What is the point in members asking questions if the questions are not answered fully?