Students crippled by accommodation costs
Some students will be paying anything from €100 to €140 per week for accommodation. Therefore, rent for many students amounts almost to the sum total of their maintenance, if they are lucky enough to get a maintenance grant. This, coupled with the proposed increase in student intake in many of our third-level colleges, will see many students without accommodation as they enter or return to college this autumn.
The Minster for Education must consider the cost of housing and rented accommodation and the lack of a substantial increase in the maintenance grant for young people.
