An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2026-01-27
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Peter Roche (FG), Galway East

I want to shine a light on an anomaly that exists with regard to eligibility for the Student Universal Support Ireland, SUSI, grant. I refer to mature students, if you like, who continue to live at home with their parents for obvious reasons because they cannot acquire a property of their own. The parents' income is assessed as part of the eligibility, which is a little bit of a burden on the applicant. The same applies to students returning home from abroad. If they do not have private accommodation, or their own accommodation, they are assessed under the parents' means, which is a little bit unfair.

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