Lowry Opposes Capital Asset Test For Student Grant
Deputy Michael Lowry has slammed the proposals advanced by the Minister for
Education Ruairí Quinn T.D. to include farmlands and business assets for assessment
in the Student Grant system. The Independent T.D. for Tipperary stated that this
move will only serve to ostracise students from these families and will result in an
automatic exclusion from grant aid for students whose parents are self-employed or
farming. This Deputy Lowry stated is unfair, inequitable and shows a complete lack
of understanding of farming and business assets.
“I believe that all of our young adults should have equal access to the grant system
to allow them an equal opportunity of progressing to third level education. It is
not acceptable to introduce changes that effectively estop a huge portion of these
young adults for even being considered simply because they come from a farming or
business family.”
“Furthermore the SUSI system is in chaos at present and now the Minister is
advocating including a 5 year background check on all farmers and business owners. This would cripple the inadequate system in place at present. It would be more
in the Minister’s line to ensure that the current backlogs in SUSI are tackled and
students receive what is owed to them at present.”
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