Carol Nolan (Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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123. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing maintenance grants for postgraduate students using the same income threshold as currently applicable to undergraduate students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12169/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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If maintenance grants were reintroduced for post-graduate students along similar lines to under-graduate students, the estimated cost would be in the region of €53m. This costing assumes that the number of post-graduate grant holders in receipt of SUSI grants would increase to the level prior to the removal of post-graduate maintenance grants in Budget 2012.