Mick Barry
Ceist:224. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Education and Skills the supports in place for applicants for the special rate of postgraduate grant awarded via SUSI who are long-term unemployed but had a short period of temporary employment in the year of assessment; the options available to a student who is only informed he or she has not qualified for a special rate grant after the course has begun and first term fees have been paid via a standard SUSI grant and who is unable financially to complete the course of study due to having been rejected for the special rate grant; if a student will be considered eligible to apply for a special rate postgraduate grant in the following year if, having begun the course, he or she opts to defer study and reapply in the following academic year; the way in which a potential applicant who is long-term unemployed, with the exception of a short period of temporary casual employment, can be supported to access the special rate of postgraduate grant; and if the Minister will make a statement on the matter. [53084/18]
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