Cecilia Keaveney (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 513: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if funding is available for a person (details supplied) in County Donegal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24533/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The position is that the third level student support schemes funded by my Department do not extend to undergraduate courses outside the E.U.

There are no monies at the disposal of my Department out of which financial assistance could be made available for study at undergraduate level in the U.S.A. You will appreciate that the Schemes of Student Support must be applied impartially and it is not possible to make exceptions in individual cases.

There are no plans at present to extend the scope of the maintenance grants schemes to fund undergraduate courses outside of the E.U.