The "Free Tuition Fees Scheme" covers first time Irish or other EU undergraduates on approved full-time courses in publicly funded colleges. It does not cover students who may be repeating a year of their degree programme or students who are taking a second undergraduate degree. Opponents argue that foreign students should pay full tuition and should not be subsidised by Irish taxpayers. Proponents argue that offering the programme to international students helps attract skilled workers from other countries to Ireland.
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If they are low income and there are spaces available.
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If their country offered it
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With certain immigration rules it can become hard for local students to enrolin in their local university without extra funding
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They should have a contract that dictates that if they leave their course they will be demanded to a pay a fee akin to the expected fee without the free tuition fees scheme implemented, this is to avoid exploitation of the Irish taxpayer
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No but the fees should be reduced for foreign students
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Yes, but only for citizens of the European Union.
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Yes, to students from European and English-speaking countries
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Yes, if they are resident in the country
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Limits may need to be applied to numbers
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Means test, and scholarship basis system should come in.
Yes if they agree to work in the EU after
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It should be allowed for EU citizens
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Yes, for certain courses if it isn't free in their home country
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Yes, but only on the same basis as citizens and only if their family is not suspected of tax evasion and avoidance
