Written answers

Tuesday, 21 June 2011

Department of Education and Skills

Third Level Fees

9:00 pm

Photo of Maureen O'SullivanMaureen O'Sullivan (Dublin Central, Independent)
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Question 146: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the amount that has been paid in student fees to the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland for those from non-EU countries [16583/11]

Photo of Ruairi QuinnRuairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Under the terms of my Department's Free Fee Scheme the Exchequer meets the cost of tuition fees in respect of eligible students who are pursuing full-time undergraduate courses of study which are a minimum of two years duration in an approved higher education institution. The main conditions of the scheme are that students must be first-time undergraduates, hold inter alia EU/EEA/Swiss nationality in their own right, and have been ordinarily resident in an EU/EEA/Swiss state for at least three of the five years preceding their entry to an approved third level course.

Where undergraduate students, such as non-EU students, do not meet the eligibility criteria of the free fees schemes, it is the higher education institution concerned that determines, in accordance with its criteria, the appropriate tuition fee payable by such students. Funding has not been allocated to the Royal College of Surgeons in respect of fees for students from non-EU countries.

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