Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 16 April 2013
465. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 144 of 27 March 2013, if he will provide the number of third level student grant applicants who have waited more than three months, six months, nine months and 12 months for their claims to be processed. [17159/13]
View answerThe Deputy will appreciate that the average waiting time for the processing of grant applications is dependent on a number of variables including the volume of applications received, staffing resources, whether or not completed application forms have been received and how quickly complete further documentation requested is returned. The existing SUSI management reporting systems does not provide an age analysis in the format sought by the Deputy.
