Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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Question 531: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if she will re-examine a decision to refuse a higher education grant to a person (details attached) in County Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17029/07]

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