Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 190: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the date upon which the 2006 third level grant aid scheme will be published; the reason publication of the scheme in 2005 was delayed until July; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11398/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The process of reviewing the thresholds for eligibility and the grant levels for the 2006-07 academic year is currently ongoing. Decisions on the 2006 schemes will be announced as soon as this process is completed. The applications forms and accompanying notes for the 2006-07 will issue in the coming weeks.

The application forms and accompanying notes for the 2005-06 academic year, in respect of each of the four maintenance grant schemes, were issued electronically to each local authority and VEC on 31 March 2005. The forms and notes were delivered by courier early in April 2005. The 2005 schemes for the 2005-06 academic year, issued both electronically and in hard copy to each local authority and VEC on 20 June 2005.

All of the above issue dates were well in advance of the specified deadline for receipt of the grant applications in the assessing bodies, which for the 2005-06 schemes was set at not later than 31 August 2005.