Paul Gogarty (Dublin Mid West, Green Party)
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Question 405: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Science if a person who is in receipt of a vocational education committee third level maintenance grant and who becomes seriously ill, and then has to repeat the year, is entitled to receive the maintenance grant again; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [13602/10]

Mary Coughlan (Donegal South West, Fianna Fail)
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Clause 7.2 of the VEC Scholarship Scheme provides that a VEC shall have discretion to allow funding for a repeat year of study in exceptional circumstances, such as certified serious illness. The exercise of this discretion and the decision on eligibility is a matter, in the first instance, for the relevant VEC.