Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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666. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the breakdown of further education students who received each level of SUSI support, such as full maintenance grants, full fees, 50% fees and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9751/21]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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In the academic year 2019/2020, SUSI processed 96,500 applications in total, and paid out 71,391 grants. Of this, 7,407 awards were made to PLC students .

For the academic year 2020/21, SUSI has processed a total of 100,900 applications and to date 73,693 grants have been paid, of which 6,601 were paid to PLC students.

Please also note that the data for 20/21 academic year is correct as at 12/2/2021, and may be subject to change as late applications are still being processed and the appeals process for 2020/21 is ongoing.

Please note that PLC fees are waived for SUSI grant holders.

A detailed breakdown of the number of students and the rates of grants awarded to them can be found in the tables.