Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)
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Question 131: To ask the Minister for Education and Science when she will publish the Student Support Bill; if there are outstanding reports or data awaited before the Bill can be finalised; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5072/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The Government has approved the drafting of a new Student Support Bill which will place all student support schemes on a statutory footing for the first time, including providing for the designation of an appropriate awarding authority and for the general basis on which grants will be awarded to eligible students. Work on the Bill is at an advanced stage and I hope to be in a position to publish the Bill shortly.