David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to set out the estimated cost of reversing the budget 2011 decision to increase the SUSI grant non-adjacency qualifying distance from 24 km to 45 km; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24518/18]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The cost of reversing the change to the distance criterion from the existing 45 km to 24 km, is estimated to be in the region of €26 m.

The above costing assumes that a change to the distance criterion would result in a similar percentage of students qualifying for the higher non-adjacent grant support, as existed pre Budget 2011.