Róisín Shortall
Question:79. Deputy Róisín Shortall asked the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of changing the qualifying criteria for the non-adjacent rate of the third level grant from 45 km to 24 km. [38138/18]
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The cost of reversing the change to the distance criterion from the existing 45kms to 24kms, is estimated to be in the region of €26m.
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.