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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (27 Feb 2024)

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 Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: I also think we need to look at the SUSI Act. To be honest, whoever is the Minister and whoever is in government, it is too prescriptive to have this in primary legislation. If we look at the SUSI Act as compared with some of the social welfare Acts, the Minister for Social Protection, whoever he or she is, has a flexibility through regulation whereas, frankly, the primary legislation is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: ...for Education and Skills if there are plans to include courses for adults with intellectual disabilities such as the level 3 certificate in skills for independent living at Dundalk IT under the SUSI grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8724/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Ruairi Ó Murchú: Are there any plans to include in the SUSI grant scheme courses for adults with intellectual disabilities, such as the level 3 certificate in skills for independent living which I was lucky enough to visit in Dundalk Institute of Technology recently? Obviously that is one of the courses included in the new funding streams for educational disability, which is very welcome. It is a very...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Adult Education Provision (27 Feb 2024)

Simon Harris: ...to students, including for supporting travel costs and personal assistants, which is an important message I want to set out today. On the specific question of access to the student grant scheme administered by SUSI, as the Deputy will be aware, this scheme operates within the parameters set out in primary legislation. As the legislation currently stands, the courses proposed by the...