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Student Grant Scheme Expenditure

Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 12 December 2012

Wednesday, 12 December 2012

Questions (95)

Tom Fleming

Question:

95. Deputy Tom Fleming asked the Minister for Education and Skills the cost of setting up the Student Universal Support Ireland third level grant administration body; the envisaged running costs up to the end of 2012; the envisaged cost for 2013; and the cost of administration of each of the existing third level education grant renewal bodies, vocational education committees and local authorities nationally for 2012. [55913/12]

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The total set-up cost for Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) to end of December 2012 is €1.6m. The estimated operational cost to the end of December 2012 is €5.1m and the estimated operational cost for 2013 will be in the region of €5.3m. This will be kept under review. The Deputy will appreciate that staffing resources and staffing costs associated with the processing of student grant applications are met by local authorities and vocational education committees within their overall resources and a breakdown of this data is not readily available. It was however estimated in 2011 that the cost of administration of student grants by the other 66 grant awarding authorities was in the region of €10.5m.

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