Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail)
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Question 217: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if the guidelines pertaining to the 2012/2013 student grant scheme will be available on either the website of his Department, that of the local authority or that of the vocational education committees websites; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30776/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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The Student Grant Scheme and the Student Support Regulations for the 2012/13 academic year were published by my Department on the 11th June to coincide with the introduction of the single grant awarding authority, Student Universal Support Ireland or SUSI, and the new central online application system going live. The online application facility along with the guidelines pertaining to the 2012/13 Scheme are currently available on www.studentfinance.ie as the single source of information for students. The studentfinance.ie website, provides a comprehensive source of information on financial support for further and higher education and it has all of the relevant information updated on a regular basis. In addition my own Department's website contains all of the relevant information. The management of resources on both local authority and vocational education committees websites are a matter for each individual authority.