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

I wish to ask the Minister if she will increase the income threshold for the student support grant to compensate for the negative impact of the austerity programme over the past few years which has left tax-paying parents in what heretofore would have been considered good jobs unable to afford to send their children to school. Will she further amend the student support grant scheme to allow parents, including a teacher, with a gross income of approximately €70,000 but who are going through insolvency or bankruptcy and who are allowed only €28,000 in living expenses to avail of the grant? The parents' child is being denied a college place as a result of their misfortune. Could she make a statement on the matter?

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