Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 6 December 2022
445. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of SUSI applications that were rejected in each of the past five years and to date in 2022. [60819/22]
View answerThe Student Grant Scheme is the principal support for students in financial terms by my Department. It provides grant assistance to eligible students attending approved full-time courses in approved further or higher educational institutions who meet the prescribed eligibility criteria of the relevant scheme. The Scheme is administered on behalf of my Department by the national student grant awarding authority SUSI (Student Universal Support Ireland), a business unit of CDETB. Under the terms of the Student Grant Scheme, grant assistance is awarded to eligible students attending an approved course in an approved institution who meet the prescribed conditions of funding including those relating to nationality, residency, previous academic attainment and means.
Please see below table for number of persons who were refused a grant from 2017/18 to 2022/23, data as of 25 November 2022
|
Academic Year |
2017/18 |
2018/19 |
2019/20 |
2020/21 |
2021/22 |
2022/23* |
|
Applications Refused |
17,130 |
15,878 |
16,747 |
18,571 |
17,861 |
17,460 |
*Data for current 2022/23 academic year is likely to change as processing is ongoing.
If an individual applicant considers that he/she has been unjustly refused a student grant, he/she may appeal, in the first instance, to his/her awarding body. Where an individual applicant has had an appeal turned down in writing by the awarding authority and remains of the view that the scheme has not been interpreted correctly in his/her case, an appeal outlining the position may be submitted by the applicant to the independent Student Grants Appeals Board.
