Student Support Schemes
Dail Éireann — 2020-12-15
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Rose Conway-Walsh (SF), Mayo

My question relates to the €250 payment to students, for which €50 million in funding was announced in the budget. Can the Minister clarify why €43.5 million, rather than €50 million, was provided in the Supplementary Estimate? Will he comment on the number of students excluded from the payment, including part-time students, students on full-time post-leaving certificate courses, PLCs, and students who choose to study abroad or in the North?

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Sitting date: 2020-12-15