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Student launches high challenge against Grant Cuts

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  • 19-07-2011 3:21pm
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    B1977
    Registered Users Posts: 410 ✭✭


    Hopefully there will be a good result to come from this

    http://www.usi.ie/component/content/article/44-frontpage-content-1/1667-students-launch-high-court-challenge-against-savage-cuts-to-grants.html



    The last Budget replaced the 24 kilometres threshold with a new one of 45 kilometres - the Government claiming that improvements to public transport made it more feasible to commute to college from long distances.

    USI insists this is simply not the case and that thousands of current students are facing unmanageable cuts of over 60 per cent in their grants as a result.

    The High Court heard that current students could not legitimately have expected their grants to be cut by so much - in some cases seeing their grant cut from €6,100 to €2,445 as a result of the new boundary changes.

    USI President Gary Redmond said the Government encouraged school leavers to go onto college and mature students to return to education but that the recent grant cuts would force many of those to emigrate or onto ever increasing ‘dole’ queues.


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