Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 24 January 2023
441. Deputy Ged Nash asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if Irish third level institutions will be able to admit refugee students from Ukraine who are resident in Ireland, engaged in distance learning with a Ukrainian institution and with credit for modules already completed in a comparable course; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2915/23]
View answerThe Deputy will be aware that, in response to the invasion of Ukraine, and in line with the decision by the European Council on 4 March 2022, the Government is applying the rights afforded under the International Protection Act, 2015 to Beneficiaries of Temporary Protection, which includes the right to access to certain State services, including education.
From the outset of Russia's invasion of Ukraine I have been greatly encouraged with the open and generous response of Ireland's higher education institutions to the needs of those Ukraine students seeking to continue their higher education studies.
The situation you outlined is a matter for each higher education institution.
