Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 510: To ask the Minister for Education and Science if he will reconsider the decision to refuse the higher education grant to a person (details supplied) in County Louth for the academic year 2008-09; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46168/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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The condition in the 2008 maintenance grant schemes relating to residency requires, in the case of an 'Independent Mature Candidate' the candidate himself/herself shall have been ordinarily resident in the administrative area of the Local Authority from 1st October 2007.

The candidate, referred to by the Deputy appealed Louth County Council's decision not to award a Higher Education Grant to my Department. The decision of the assessing authority in this case was upheld on appeal.

It is not open to me, or to my Department, to depart from the terms of the maintenance grant schemes in individual cases.