Third Level Costs
Dail Éireann — 2023-02-14
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Simon Harris (FG), Wicklow

I will certainly reflect on the issue of paperwork and accessibility and so forth. As the Deputy acknowledged, SUSI staff are working extremely hard as they deal with a huge volume of applications and queries. I will talk to them to make sure it is as user-friendly a system as possible.
With regard to that issue of broadening the types of courses that qualify, my first intention would be part-time courses because there will be many students, including some the Deputy would know in Atlantic Technological University, who may wish to or have to study part-time for a whole variety of reasons. They will still end up with the same qualifications but they are doing it in a different way. If that is the starting point, there are a whole variety of part-time courses. However, I am talking about students who end up with the same qualification they would have received if they did it full time but did it part-time because they are perhaps holding down a job, caring for a relative or child or have a disability and that way was just not best for them. That is the area in which I would like to move. I am in agreement with the Deputy on that.

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Sitting date: 2023-02-14