Students do not receive recurrent grant funding from the Exchequer, the Department of Education, the Department of Higher Education, Research, Innovation or Science or the HEA. Recurrent grant funding is for the running cost of approved institutions.
Student financial support is mainly provided through the Student Grant Scheme and the Student Assistance Funding and other targeted student support measures where a student is attending an approved institution and an approved course for a particular scheme and if they meet the terms and conditions of that scheme.
It has come my attention that there was an error in a response provided to the Deputy in respect of PQ 49540/21, in particular around wording relating to a recurrent grant funding. I will ask the PQ office to amend the record but for clarity for the Deputy, the Student Assistance Fund (SAF) is paid to Universities, Technological Universities and Institutes of Technology. A number of other Higher Education colleges that receive recurrent grants type funding from the exchequer are also approved institutions for the Student Assistance Fund.
A list of the institutions covered by Student Assistance Fund (SAF) is as follows:-
Dublin City University
University College Cork
University College Dublin
National University of Ireland, Galway (including Shannon College)
Maynooth University
Trinity College Dublin
University of Limerick
Technological University Dublin
Technological University of the Shannon
Institute of Technology Carlow
Munster Technological University
Dundalk Institute of Technology
Institute of Art, Design and Technology Dún Laoghaire
Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology
Letterkenny Institute of Technology
Institute of Technology Sligo
Waterford Institute of Technology
Marino Institute of Education
National College of Art & Design
National College of Ireland
Mary Immaculate College
St Angela's College
St. Patrick’s College Pontifical University of Maynooth
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, University of Medicine and Health Sciences
