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

I thank the Minister. Do the institutions already have this money? Is it being front-loaded?
Cross-Border enrolment on this island is still far too low. In the past ten years there has been a decline of almost 40% in the number of students from this State studying in the North. Students from the North of Ireland make up less than 1% of enrolment in this State. We need to work collectively to reverse those trends, and we should start by not punishing students and giving the same leeway to those studying in the North. We need an all-island approach to education. We can offer better options to students by working together as an island. I ask the Minister to work with us to make sure of this.
We must also make sure that students in the North can avail of the Horizon 2020 programme after 1 January. Perhaps the Minister could comment on that.

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Sitting date: 2020-12-15