Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 430: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the position of a grant for persons (details supplied) in County Kildare in regard to their university fees; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17046/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department has contacted the awarding Local Authority, in this case Laois County Council, in relation to the students referred to by the Deputy. Laois County Council confirmed that both students are in receipt of the Third Level Maintenance Grant. Laois County Council have confirmed that the reckonable income exceeds €15,626 which is the income threshold for the Top-up grant. It is not open to me, or to my Department, to depart from the terms of the schemes in individual cases.