# student-grants - Wednesday 8 May, 2013
While 328 grants have still to be processed by SUSI, an additional 1,938 students remain in limbo as the result of ongoing disputes over documentation.
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# student-grants - Wednesday 27 March, 2013
The USI said Joe O’Connor has firsthand experience with the college grant system which will help him represent struggling students.
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# student-grants - Friday 1 March, 2013
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While Labour TDs believe the change makes “perfect sense”, there is opposition from some Fine Gael TDs.
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# student-grants - Monday 14 January, 2013
The union at Galway-Mayo IT is handing out bags of food to hard-up students as SUSI continues catching up on grant payments.
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# student-grants - Wednesday 9 January, 2013
The money is to be used by third level students facing financial hardship, and comes as some students are still waiting for grants.
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# student-grants - Monday 17 December, 2012
Fianna Fáil’s Seán Fleming said that the office of the Ombudsman currently does not cover the student grant processing.
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# student-grants - Tuesday 20 November, 2012
The Minister for Education says SUSI has taken on another 50 staff this week to clear the backlog of 21,000 applications.
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# student-grants - Thursday 15 November, 2012
John Logue was arrested in the Dáil visitors’ gallery last night but was later released without charge.
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# student-grants - Wednesday 14 November, 2012
CEO of SUSI, Jacinta Stewart said over 66,000 applications were received by the online system.
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# student-grants - Tuesday 13 November, 2012
Around 48,000 students are still waiting for their grant applications to be processed. Ruairí Quinn has said the delay is “not satisfactory”.
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# student-grants - Thursday 25 October, 2012
New figures show that 65,000 students applied under the new student grant system – but decisions have been made on just 12,000 applications so far.
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# student-grants - Wednesday 19 September, 2012
The Taoiseach says the government remains committed to implementing the Croke Park deal despite missing targets on public allowances.
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South Tipperary County Council says it decided not to link grant payments with the household charge after looking more closely.
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# student-grants - Saturday 11 August, 2012
Fine Gael TDs are threatening a revolt over plans to consider the value of family farmland when considering a grant application.
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A number of TDs – including a cabinet minister – are opposed to planned changes to grant criteria. So what’s going on?
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# student-grants - Thursday 2 August, 2012
Caught between fees and grants, a growing number of would-be students face missing out altogether. Welcome to the world of the ‘inbetweeners’, writes Patrick Kelleher.
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# student-grants - Monday 28 May, 2012
One of the three students who sought the original judicial review has since dropped out of college due to grant reforms and is planning to emigrate.
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# student-grants - Wednesday 25 April, 2012
Students whose grants were reformed last year are told the State’s economic problems trump their legitimate expectations.
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# student-grants - Monday 20 February, 2012
Nine things to know by 9am, including: Final day of Xi visit, Greece set for €130bn loan, Bank of Ireland cuts its losses, and are you hungry enough for a test tube hamburger?
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# student-grants - Tuesday 22 November, 2011
The boom taught us the danger of ignoring inconvenient truths, writes Miles Link – so what are we doing with cuts to the universities?
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# student-grants - Monday 21 November, 2011
Ruairí Quinn admits the Budget will be so tough that a blanket cut to postgraduate student grants “cannot be ruled out”.
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# student-grants - Monday 19 September, 2011
Nine things to know before 9am: Man in court over Roscommon stabbing, eateries lose millions in food waste, and the latest institution to ban men with red hair…
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The Union of Students in Ireland has hailed the establishment of a central appeals board by minister Ruairí Quinn.
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