Charlie McConalogue (Donegal North East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 160: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of third level students from a farming background who qualified for a student maintenance grant in each year for the past five years. [36289/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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A table shows the estimated percentage of new awards made to students from farming backgrounds. This indicative data is subject to considerable qualification for interpretation purposes in relation to its reliability due to, inter alia, the level of undeclared status amongst the returns from the awarding authorities and the provision of accurate and or/adequate information in respect of occupation by the principal earner to enable the awarding authorities to classify them by socio-economic background.

The information contained in the table has been supplied to my Department by the awarding authorities who submitted a return.