Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 828: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if a higher education grant will be paid in respect of a plc course in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare who had to withdraw from a previous course due to financial constraints; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9912/07]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The decision on eligibility for third level grants is a matter for the relevant local authority or VEC. These bodies do not refer individual applications to my Department except in exceptional cases where, for example, advice or instruction regarding a particular clause in the relevant scheme is desired. It appears that no such advice or instruction has, to date, been sought in the case of the student referred to by the Deputy.

Officials in my Department have been in contact with the awarding authorities in Kildare and they have no record of an application for the current academic year for the student referred to by the Deputy. It is not possible, therefore, to comment on the circumstances of the student concerned.