Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 20 November 2018
236. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SUSI applications that have been submitted in each of the years 2013 to 2017 and to date in 2018; the number awarded the full grant; the number awarded a part grant; the number declined respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48341/18]
View answerThe data provided in the following table is in respect of students who were awarded a grant from SUSI the centralised grant awarding authority, which was established in 2012. It does not encompass data relating to the 66 awarding authorities who have continued to process renewal applications on a transistionary basis, as their data is not collated in the format requested by the Deputy.
The following table provides a breakdown of the awards for each of the academic years 2013/14 – 2018/19 (provisional) in the categories requested by the Deputy. Please note that not all students who are awarded a grant take up the grant for a variety of reasons e.g. deferral of course or repeating a year.
The data in the tables has been supplied to my Department by SUSI.
|
RATE |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
2015-16 |
2016-17 |
2017-18 |
2018-19 to date |
|
Awarded Full Rate |
42,103 |
53,441 |
59,847 |
60,891 |
59,290 |
56,926 |
|
Awarded Part Rate |
17,752 |
21,813 |
24,167 |
23,219 |
22,784 |
21,402 |
|
Refused |
23,713 |
19,199 |
18,593 |
17,640 |
17,132 |
13,483 |
|
Cancelled |
8,721 |
9,294 |
5,598 |
3,558 |
4,167 |
2,949 |
|
Work in progress |
3,748 |
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|
Total |
92,289 |
103,747 |
108,205 |
105,308 |
103,373 |
98,508 |
