Joe Higgins (Dublin West, Socialist Party)
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163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will address the anomaly in the correspondence (details supplied) whereby persons who complete a foundation course under the springboard initiative in order to access third level can be made ineligible for free fees in respect of their third level course on the basis that the foundation course is itself a major award. [21141/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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I can confirm to the Deputy that the matter to which he refers is currently under consideration and officials from SUSI will be in contact with the student shortly.