The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) has welcomed the Government’s decision not to cut the student maintenance grant any further this year. USI President Joe O’Connor said: “This budget marks a turning point. After four cuts to the maintenance grant in four...
WE’LL hear a lot about ‘fairness’ in the next week and a half or so. That is what happens at Budget time, in good times and the bad. So let us get the fairness discussion out of the way right now: Nothing that happens next Tuesday afternoon will be...
Union of Students Ireland Press Release The Union of Students in Ireland (USI) is warning TDs that every young person on the dole costs the State twice as much as a student on the grant. At a pre-budget briefing in Dublin today, USI President Joe O’Connor will show...
As someone who qualified for the full student maintenance grant and relied on this to get me through college, my greatest motivation in this role is endeavouring to protect our most financially vulnerable members and their right to the same academic opportunities I...
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