I propose to take Questions Nos. 190 and 191 together.
The position is that under my Department's free fees schemes, the Exchequer provides funding towards tuition fee costs in respect of eligible students who are pursuing full-time undergraduate courses of study. The main conditions of the scheme are that students must be first-time undergraduates, hold inter alia EU/EEA/Swiss nationality in their own right, and have been ordinarily resident in an EU/EEA/Swiss state for at least three of the five years preceding their entry to an approved third level course. Funding under the schemes is only available in respect of approved courses in this State.
Under EU legislation, students from this State wishing to study in another EU State are entitled to avail of whatever supports are available in the EU State in which they wish to study. However, the level of fee payable by a student attending a higher education institution in the UK is a matter for that particular institution to determine and my Department has no role in relation to such matters.