Carol Nolan (Offaly, Sinn Fein)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

137. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of providing an additional top-up for students on the special top-up rate on the non-adjacent student grant of €30 per week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12184/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

There were 10,626 students in receipt of the non-adjacent special rate for the 2015/16 academic year. Paying each of these students an additional €30 per week for 36 weeks would cost in the region of €11.5 million. If the €30 per week was calculated over a 52 week period then the cost would be in the region of €16.5 million.