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Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Expenditure (23 Apr 2024)

Paschal Donohoe: ...of €11.690m and the Mobility allowance with a budget of €8.244m. The Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science has an allocation in 2024 of approximately €391m for the Student Support Grants (SUSI). Relevant schemes in the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage include the Rental Accommodation Scheme (with an...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (23 Apr 2024)

Louise O'Reilly: 701. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the SUSI grant will be rolled out for part-time courses from September 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17562/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (23 Apr 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: ..., 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. Details of eligibility for the Student Grant Scheme can be found at: www.susi.ie Funding under the Free Fees Initiative is only available in...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (18 Apr 2024)

Patrick O'Donovan: Under the Student Grant scheme, SUSI grants are awarded to eligible students attending an approved course in an approved institution who meet the conditions of funding, including nationality and residency. The scheme has a statutory underpinning and is operated in accordance with the provisions of the relevant primary legislation, namely the Student Support Act 2011. In order to be...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (16 Apr 2024)

Kathleen Funchion: 756. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a SUSI application by person (details enclosed) will be reviewed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16236/24]

Ceapachán an Taoisigh agus Ainmniú Chomhaltaí an Rialtais - Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government (9 Apr 2024)

Mattie McGrath: Ar dtús, ba mhaith liom comhghairdeas a dhéanamh leis an Taoiseach agus leis na hAirí nua. I wish them well. Like Deputy Nolan, I thank the Taoiseach for his work on SUSI, apprenticeships and other issues in his time as higher education Minister. I acknowledge that unlike what I said this morning about his abysmal time in health. Recently, it has not only been Fine Gael...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (9 Apr 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...of a payment from my Department they may be eligible for an Increase for a Qualified Child which can be paid up to age 22 where the child remains in full time education. Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) offers funding to eligible students in approved full time courses at Post-Leaving Certificate, undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Ireland and in some cases, to students...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (9 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Brendan Griffin: 1701. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if evidence of independent residency provided to SUSI for a student grant application (details supplied) from a former HSE public health nurse's employer which is a State agency will be accepted as proof of independent living; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14926/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (21 Mar 2024)

Mairead Farrell: 329. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if option 1 (details supplied) was used for calculating the amount due for those in receipt of the award of no maintenance 50% SUSI contribution; if so, the reason option 2 was not considered which would have had a greater reduction in the net amount due; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13462/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (20 Mar 2024)

Simon Harris: ...contribution payable by free fees eligible undergraduate students. From September 2023, for the current academic year, I introduced a permanent new rate of student contribution grant via SUSI of €500, for students whose families have incomes between €62,000 and €100,000. I also increased the income limit for students to avail of the 50% student contribution grant....

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (20 Mar 2024)

Seán Sherlock: 1559. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills when the 2024/2025 SUSI application process will open. [12953/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Policies (20 Mar 2024)

Patricia Ryan: ...if, with regard to the advanced healthcare assistant, QQI level 6 (details supplied), if any plans are being considered to have the same course rolled out across the TU campuses and covered by the SUSI system, considering the benefits to be gained from it by both healthcare providers and their employees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13159/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (5 Mar 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Kathleen Funchion: 801. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) can avail of any further SUSI supports; if so, what assistance can be provided for them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10331/24]

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: The Future of Local Democracy: Discussion (Resumed) (29 Feb 2024)

...put them through college. As regards the councillor's rate, it is great that we are getting a few extra bob - there is no disputing that as it is much needed - but it puts us over all thresholds for SUSI grants for putting kids through college. We talk about the far right and the far left. Nobody is talking about the man in the middle. The man in the middle is caught for everything and...

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,...