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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (19 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: ...the measures which provide the most benefit to learners and families. Budget 2024 focuses on my priority of reducing the cost associated with further and higher education and increases to the SUSI grants system. Budget 2024 will see a change for the first time ever to the free fees initiative to include part time, online and blended education. In addition to this, postgraduate students...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills: General Scheme of the Education (Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse) Bill 2023: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Oct 2023)

...to avail of it as well. We will try to make it as easy to access as possible. We are not interested in a big, bureaucratic exercise, like getting grants from Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, or any of that. We certainly do not intend it to displace any of the supports already available for people in accessing education. There are plenty of those, as the Deputy will be aware....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (18 Oct 2023)

Stephen Donnelly: ...nationality, 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. All applications are assessed nationally with reference to the terms and conditions of the Student Grant Scheme, which are applied...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (18 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Cian O'Callaghan: 291. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills whether his attention has been drawn to SUSI guidelines for proof of independent residency (details supplied), whereby they do not account for people renting under the rent-a-room scheme; if he will amend these guidelines to allow students living independently to avail of SUSI grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45449/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (18 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Kathleen Funchion: 297. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a third level student who is completely estranged from their parents, but has not reached the age of 23 years, can apply for support through a SUSI grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45726/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Budget 2024 (18 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: ...;1,000 reduction to the student contribution fee for circa 94,000 undergraduates eligible for free fees.Once off €1,000 increase to post graduates tuition fee contribution benefitting circa 1,790 postgrads eligible for SUSI;Once-off reduction of 33% in the contribution fee for circa 11k apprentices in higher education. Additional funding to support students at a time of increased...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (17 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

Peadar Tóibín: 637. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students who sought the SUSI grant on the grounds of estrangement from parents in each of the past ten years and to date in 2023. [45275/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (12 Oct 2023) See 2 other results from this answer

Pearse Doherty: 195. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) in County Donegal qualifies for the special rate of SUSI grant in their exceptional circumstances; if any outstanding documentation is required; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44569/23]

Financial Resolutions 2023 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (11 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: ...with a household income below €100,000 will see their fees halved; they will actually see their fees reduced to €1,500 because they will get the €1,000 off and they can also get the €500 credit from the SUSI system as well. In addition, all student grants will increase from January, with none of the waiting until September that we had in previous years. We...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (11 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: On 25 August 2023, SUSI issued a letter to the student referred to by the Deputy advising them they needed to re-apply as a dependent student with their parents’ details. To date the student has not reapplied as a dependent student. I would encourage the student to make an application.

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Oct 2023)

Regina Doherty: .... As a parent who has three children in college, I am particularly mindful of the fees reduction and continued support for university fees. The increase in the student universal support Ireland, SUSI, grant is welcome for the hundreds of thousands who go to college every year. I welcome the rental tax credit and continued support for housing, which not only the Government, but the rest...

Seanad: Budget 2024 (Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform): Statements (10 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this debate

Malcolm Byrne: ...Government and shows a very clear commitment to support special education. On the question of the higher education package, I welcome the real difference that has been made this year on Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, grants. The non-adjacent maintenance grants will be increased by €615 per annum, which is a real difference for those students. Those who receive adjacent...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Costs (10 Oct 2023) See 1 other result from this answer

John McGuinness: 594. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will review a SUSI application by a person (details supplied). [43418/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Schemes (10 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: 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. For student grant purposes, students are categorised according to their circumstances either as students dependent on parents or a legal guardian, or as independent mature students (ie: assessed...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (10 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: ...approved undergraduate course in Northern Ireland/the UK to continue post-Brexit. As an Irish citizen attending University in the UK, the student in question would be eligible to apply through the SUSI system for maintenance grant funding. Additionally, they would be eligible for tax relief at the standard rate of tax for approved courses at approved higher educational institutions in the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (5 Oct 2023)

Simon Harris: ...of the student contribution in 2023/24. Ultimately, the additional cost to the State of operating the FFI, should a flat rate reduction be applied, would be dependent on the number of FFI and SUSI eligible students in any given academic year. At this time costings for 2024/25 are not available, however based on the methodology applied in the aforementioned cost of education paper it is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (5 Oct 2023)

Richard Bruton: 356. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will indicate his latest estimate of recipients of post-graduation student support from SUSI; if he will indicate their distribution between adjacent colleges and distance colleges, and within these categories at the special maintenance rate, at standard maintenance, at partial maintenance and at contribution reduction only support....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (4 Oct 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ..., I can guarantee that students will not be forgotten. They were not forgotten in the last budget. In the last budget, we reduced college fees and increased the Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, grant. We made it easier for people to get the SUSI grant. We extended the rent credit to students and their parents if their parents were paying the rent. That was worth more than...

Seanad: Access to Third Level Places and Student Accommodation: Statements (4 Oct 2023) See 8 other results from this debate

Simon Harris: ...that for many people, the only way that they can access third level education might be on a part-time basis. It is a perfectly good way of doing it. It gets the person the same qualification but such a person cannot access the Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, system, or the free fees. I am looking to see in the context of the focus on child poverty, child well-being and how we...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Oct 2023)

Leo Varadkar: Students will not be forgotten in the budget next week. In the previous budget, we increased the SUSI grant and made it available to more people. We reduced student contribution fees, provided the rent credit to students and increased funding for student accommodation. Hundreds of additional beds are now being provided every year on our university and third level campuses. While I cannot...