925. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in relation to the SUSI Special Rate Maintenance Grant, if he will consider some flexibility, based on individual circumstance rather than a rigid income cut off, even allowing some lee-way on appeal depending on circumstances to better support people in education, especially where they live at home and their parents have modest pensions which put them over the income threshold, noting that in the North of Ireland and England there are taper elements to maintenance supports; and if he will consider some limited discretion or a taper process. [68881/26]

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925. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in relation to the SUSI Special Rate Maintenance Grant, if he will consider some flexibility, based on individual circumstance rather than a rigid income cut off, even allowing some lee-way on appeal depending on circumstances to better support people in education, especially where they live at home and their parents have modest pensions which put them over the income threshold, noting that in the North of Ireland and England there are taper elements to maintenance supports; and if he will consider some limited discretion or a taper process. [68881/26]

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1. 29 September 2026

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   925. Deputy Claire Kerrane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in relation to the SUSI Special Rate Maintenance Grant, if he will consider some flexibility, based on individual circumstance rather than a rigid income cut off, even allowing some lee-way on appeal depending on circumstances to better support people in education, especially where they live at home and their parents have modest pensions which put them over the income threshold, noting that in the North of Ireland and England there are taper elements to maintenance supports; and if he will consider some limited discretion or a taper process. [68881/26]

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