Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 18 November 2025
1159. Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the rights a returning emigrant with two children who worked in Ireland for 12 to 13 years before emigrating to the USA has in relation to their teenage child's university education and the cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [63814/25]
Amharc ar fhreagraHigher education institutions in Ireland are autonomous bodies and , as such, it is a matter for each institution to determine the level of fee applicable to particular programmes, or to particular elements of academic programmes.
In order to qualify for funding towards tuition fees, students must be first-time undergraduates, hold inter alia EU/EEA/Swiss nationality in their own right, and have been ordinarily resident in an EU/EEA/Swiss State for at least three of the five years preceding their entry to an approved third level course.
Where students do not qualify for free fees funding, they must pay the appropriate fee - either EU or Non-EU rate, as determined by each higher education institution.
