John Perry (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael)
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Question 522: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if financial assistance or a scholarship is available to a pupil who obtains 600 points in the leaving certificate and is ineligible for the higher education grant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31871/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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My Department does not offer a specific scholarship to pupils who obtain 600 points in their leaving certificate. However, my Department offers 50 Third Level Scholarships annually under three scholarship schemes as follows:

Scéim Scoláireachtaí Tríú Leibhéal do Mhic Léinn ón nGaeltacht

Scéim Scoláireachtaí Tríú Leibhéal (Trí Ghaeilge Teoranta)

Scéim Scoláireachtaí Ghaeilge Tríú Leibhéil (Neamh-Theoranta).

These scholarships are awarded to those students who have, among other things, attended an all-Irish second level school and reached a certain minimum standard in the Leaving Certificate Examination. These scholarships are only tenable in respect of specified third level courses. Applications are required for these scholarships. The closing date for these scholarships in 2006 was 28th July 2006.

My Department also awards seven Easter Week Commemoration Scholarships annually on the basis of the Leaving Certificate results. An Easter Week Commemoration Scholarship is a highly prestigious award as only one scholarship is awarded annually in commemoration of each signatory of the 1916 Proclamation of Independence.