Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 20 November 2018
237. Deputy John Lahart asked the Minister for Education and Skills the number of SUSI applications that were declined between 2013 and 2018; the number of these that were appealed; the number of successful appeals; the number of applications forwarded to the Students Grant Appeal Board and that were successful in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48342/18]
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 first table - SUSI Grants appeals provides a breakdown of applications for each of the academic years 2013/14 – 2018/19 (provisional) in the categories requested by the Deputy. The data in the tables has been supplied to my Department by SUSI.
The second table - Stats for PQ relating to the number of applications forwarded to the Students Grant Appeal Board and the number of successful appeals to the Board has been prepared by the Board's administrative support team.
2.1 The number of applications declined (i.e. refused grants)
|
Applications to SUSI |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
2015-16 |
2016-17 |
2017-18 |
2018-19 |
|
23,713 |
19,199 |
18,593 |
17,640 |
17,132 |
13,483 |
2.2 The number of appeals - *Note - data on appeals was not disaggregated between appeals on declined applications and appeals on applications awarded grants (i.e. appeals for higher rate of grants)
|
Appeals to SUSI* |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
2015-16 |
2016-17 |
2017-18 |
2018-19 |
|
(@ 11.11.18) |
||||||
|
6,525 |
4,148 |
5,805 |
5,483 |
5,042 |
4,105 |
2.3 The number of successful appeals
|
Appeal Outcomes |
2013-14 |
2014-15 |
2015-16 |
2016-17 |
2017-18 |
2018-19 (@ 11.11.18) |
|
Appeals Upheld |
3,906 |
1,938 |
2,691 |
2,598 |
2,281 |
1,287 |
|
Appeals Refused |
2,619 |
2,210 |
3,114 |
2,885 |
2,761 |
1,805 |
|
Total Appeals to SUSI |
6,525 |
4,148 |
5,805 |
5,483 |
5,042 |
3,092 |
(balance of 1,013 to be finalised @11.11.18)
Appeals received by Student Grants Appeals Board from 1st Sept 2012 - 19th November 2018
|
Academic Year |
Total Appeals Received SGAB |
Successful Appeals |
|
1st Sept 2012 - 31st August 2013 |
783 |
201 |
|
1st Sept 2013 - 31st August 2014 |
923 |
239 |
|
1st Sept 2014 - 31st August 2015 |
664 |
177 |
|
1st Sept 2015 - 31st August 2016 |
774 |
284 |
|
1st Sept 2016 - 31st August 2017 |
724 |
252 |
|
1st Sept 2017 - 31st August 2018 |
942 |
243 |
|
1st Sept 2018 - 13th November 2018 |
530 |
66 |
