Bernard Allen (Cork North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 269: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a child of a non-EU national working here who has lived here for almost three years on a valid permit will qualify for EU fees in our universities and institutes of technologies. [44917/09]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The position is that there is a distinction between the criteria which determines eligibility under my Department's free fees schemes, and the criteria by which individual third level institutions establish the rate of tuition fee to be charged, in cases where a student does not qualify for free fees. The third level institutions are autonomous bodies and, as such, may determine the level of fees to be charged in such cases. I have no role in this matter.