Pat Breen (Clare, Fine Gael)
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Question 223: To ask the Minister for Education and Science his plans to review the higher educational grant schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26308/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The annual process of reviewing the income limits, rates of grant and other aspects of the general criteria for the student grant schemes for the coming year is well advanced and I hope to be in a position to publish these shortly.

As part of a wider programme of legislative and administrative reform of the student grant schemes, the recently-published Student Support Bill will provide a statutory framework for reforming the administration of student grants and a coherent basis for the development of a new single unified grant scheme.