Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)
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Question 469: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the funding which is available to a person (details supplied) in County Offaly who has obtained a place in Budapest University to study veterinary medicine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19252/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Under the terms of my Department's Higher Education Grants Scheme and the Vocational Education Committees' Scholarship Scheme, grant assistance is available to eligible students attending approved third level courses in approved institutions. An approved course for the purpose of the schemes means a full-time undergraduate course of not less than two years duration and a full time postgraduate course of not less than one year duration pursued in an approved institution.

Students from this State who are attending undergraduate courses in any EU Member State can apply for maintenance grants in respect of approved courses which are pursued in colleges approved for the purposes of the schemes.

My Department's Third Level Student Maintenance Grant Schemes were extended to provide maintenance grants to eligible students pursuing approved full-time undergraduate courses of at least two years duration (pursued in a university or a third level institution which is maintained or assisted by recurrent grants from public funds) in other EU Member States with effect from the 1996/97 academic year.