Written answers
Tuesday, 20 June 2006
Department of Education and Science
Higher Education Grants
10:00 pm
Jackie Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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Question 458: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will make a statement regarding the higher education grants system of assessment which is in operation since 1983. [23377/06]
Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The assessment of means under my Department's Third Level Student Maintenance Grant Schemes is based on gross income from all sources, with specified social welfare and health board payments being excluded from the calculation.
Under the schemes reckonable income is defined as income from: Employment/Pensions; Self Employment/Farming; Rent and income from Land/Property; Deposit/Investment Accounts; Maintenance Arrangements; Gifts/Inheritances and Disposal of Assets and Rights; Social Welfare in certain circumstances.
I have no plans at present to depart from the above practice in respect of the determination of income.
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