Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 547: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when a person (details supplied) in County Mayo will be awarded their third level grant in view of the fact that they have been approved the grant for the past two weeks and that this is causing severe financial hardship to their family; and when they will receive their payment. [39021/06]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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I understand the student referred to by the Deputy has been approved for a maintenance grant under the Third Level Maintenance Grants Scheme for Trainees. Under this scheme the grant shall be paid by the Institute in monthly instalments in arrears. The student will have received a letter from the assessing authority confirming grant eligibility which needs to be submitted to the Institute to initiate the payment process.