plc economic fee for non eu nationals
As a general principal the following categories must be treated on the same basis as Irish Nationals in terms of access to vocational training Programmes with the Further Education Sector, ie the same conditions as apply to Irish Nationals for the relevant programme or scheme should also apply to the following individuals:
- EU Nationals
- Persons who have refugee status in Ireland - be that convention or programme refugee status.
- Persons in the State as the spouse of an EU national, where the EU national has moved from one country to another within the EU to work.
- Persons (Including their dependent spouses and children) who have been granted leave to remain in the State on humanitarian grounds.
- Persons who have permission to remain in the State as the parents of a child born in Ireland (they should have a letter from the Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform granting them 'leave to remain'. These rights extend to Programmes in the further Education Sector only. Such a right is riot extended to siblings of the Irish born child).
Those asylum applicants covered by the terms of a Government decision of 26 July 1999 (such persons will be in possession of a letter from the Asylum Division of the Department of Justice Equality and Law Reform stating that they are eligible to seek work).
In practice the categories listed are entitled to free access to PLC courses, while any other categories should be charged the economic fee, which, for all future fees levied, should be €3,653 per annum. Participants who pay the economic fee should be self-supporting and have approval to remain in the State (i.e. a student visa or green handbook stamped by An Garda Siochana)
Asylum seekers who enter the country after 26 July 1999 are not eligible for free PLC tuition, except in cases where they have been granted 'leave to remain' or on the basis of being the parents of an Irish born child.