Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 26 July 2022
1482. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the estimated full-year cost of restoring the grant thresholds to their pre-Budget 2011 rates for both undergraduate and postgraduate grants. [41487/22]
View answerIt is not possible to estimate the full year cost of restoring the grant thresholds to their pre-Budget 2011 levels, given the parameters provided in your question, as students that apply for a grant apply under the current grant threshold rates.
In the intervening years we have centralised the student grant scheme (replacing four separate schemes and sixty six awarding authorities with one scheme administered by a centralised awarding authority), had a complete turnover of students, income levels have changed and a number of changes have been made to the annual schemes which affect eligibility criteria.
