Results 1-4 of 4 for agriculture scheme data speaker:Mary Hanafin
- Written Answers — Social Welfare Fraud: Social Welfare Fraud (7 Oct 2009)
Mary Hanafin: ...to deter fraud and the pursuit and recovery of overpayments. Key elements of the Department's control strategy include systematic risk analysis, surveys of the levels of fraud and error within schemes, scheme specific review policies, data matching initiatives with both external and internal parties and investigation of anonymous reports. These control tools ensure that review activity is...
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (22 Nov 2006)
Mary Hanafin: ...year. The review of the income eligibility thresholds and the rates of grant that will apply for the 07/08 academic year will take place in the first quarter of 2007 when the relevant reference data is available. Provision will be determined at that point. More than â¬228 million has been allocated for the third level student support schemes in 2006. As the Deputy will be aware,...
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (23 Nov 2005)
Mary Hanafin: The statutory framework for the maintenance grants scheme, as set out in the Local Authorities (Higher Education Grants) Acts 1968 to 1992, provides for means-tested higher education grants in order to assist students to attend full-time third level education. With regard to income thresholds prescribed under the student maintenance grant schemes, the practice in recent years has been to...
- Written Answers — Higher Education Grants: Higher Education Grants (23 Nov 2005)
Mary Hanafin: With regard to income thresholds prescribed under the student maintenance grant schemes, the practice in recent years has been to increase the reckonable income limits for the ordinary rate of grant by at least the annual increase in the average industrial wage in the 12 months to September of the year prior to the relevant academic year. Similarly, with regard to the value of the grant, the...