Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will increase the income threshold for the student support grant to compensate for the negative impact of the Government's austerity programme which has left tax-paying parents in what heretofore would have been considered good jobs unable to afford to send their children to college; if she will further amend the student support grant scheme to allow parents with a gross income of approximately €70,000, but who are going through insolvency or bankruptcy and who are only allowed approximately €28,000 living expenses, to avail of the grant; her views on the children of such tax-paying parents being denied a college education as a result of the economic misfortune which has been imposed upon their parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25769/15]

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