Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour) | Oireachtas source

-----because the Minister for Education and Skills has already dealt with that.

Additional staff have been provided to speed up the processing of grant applications. They are now being processed at a rate of 800 a day. There is, however, an outstanding problem, and there is no point ignoring it. Some of the application forms are incomplete and information is still required.

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