Fiscal claim
Abolish third-level student fees
Headline figure
Per-year impact
€420m
Recurring annual spend
Total over horizon
€420m
2025 onwards
Confidence
Stated in source
€3,000 fee × ~140,000 fee-paying students ≈ €420m/yr.
Attribution & links
- Origin
- Manifesto
- Owner
- Sinn Féin
- Policy area
- Higher Education
- Underwrites commitment
- Abolish third-level student fees
- Unit target
- 140,000 students benefiting
- First stated
- 2024-11-19
- Last reviewed
- 2026-05-23
Verification
Cross-checked against the source document. Quote captured verbatim where the figure is directly stated; gaps and mismatches are noted honestly.
Verified against Sinn Féin GE2024 Manifesto - Am don Athrú, p.8: "abolish student fees."
Evidence & sources
Every euro figure above ultimately traces back to the source document below.
Source
- Sinn Féin GE2024 ManifestoSinn Féin·Retrieved 2026-05-23high
- Sinn Féin GE2024 Manifesto - Am don Athrú, p.8 - verbatim figureSinn Féin·Retrieved 2026-05-23high
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