Michael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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Question 134: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will clarify the situation regarding determination for adjacent and non-adjacent rates of higher education grants; his views on a case in which an entire faculty is located some twelve miles from the main college campus and the way students attending at this location are to be assessed with regard to their eligibility for maintenance grants; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32750/11]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Under Budget 2011, the previous Fianna Fáil-Green party Government changed the qualifying distance criterion for the non-adjacent rate of student grant from 24kms to 45kms.

The measurement of the distances for the non-adjacent rate of grant is a matter for grant awarding bodies. There has been no change as to how these distances are measured. As in the past for all cases, the shortest most direct route to the institution attended is measured.