Jimmy Devins (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fianna Fail)
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Question 838: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the procedures in place to ensure that EU Regulation 1408/71 is enacted; if she will clarify that child benefit is payable to EU persons who are employed here or in receipt of unemployment benefit but is not payable to those who are in receipt of jobseeker's allowance or unemployment assistance; and the procedures in place to prevent potential abuse or fraud of these payments. [30166/09]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Child Benefit is payable in respect of children who are ordinarily resident in the state or who reside with a qualified person outside the state, while that person is a member of the Defence Forces, a civil servant posted abroad, a volunteer development worker or who remain insurable under Irish social insurance while working abroad. EU migrant workers may have an entitlement to Child Benefit and other "Family Benefits" under EU Regulation 1408/ 71. Where a national of an EU state is working in Ireland, or in receipt of a social welfare benefit or pension, she/he is entitled to payment of these benefits, even if his/her children are resident in the worker's home country. Questions are included on the Child Benefit application form, the answers to which indicate whether this regulation should apply.

Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Fianna Fail)
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Question 839: To ask the Minister for Social and Family Affairs the third level colleges or institutions in the United Kingdom which are recognised for the back to education allowance scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30183/09]

Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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Under the back to education scheme an applicant can pursue a second or third level course up to and including a Higher Diploma in any discipline and a Post Graduate Diploma in Education. The scheme is not operated on the basis of a prescribed list of courses or of course providers. Under the third level option the course being pursued must be a full-time day course of study which is approved by the Department of Education and Science for the Higher Education Grant Scheme, for the Vocational Education Committees' Scholarship Scheme or for the Third Level Maintenance Grant Scheme for Trainees or has Higher Education and Training Awards Council (HETAC) recognition.

Full-time day undergraduate courses in the United Kingdom which are recognised by the Department of Education and Science for Higher Education Grant purposes are included in the Back to Education Allowance.