Written answers
Tuesday, 5 February 2013
Department of Education and Skills
Student Grant Scheme Eligibility
Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a student who is at least 23 years of age on 1 January of the year in which they commence a postgraduate course but who previously completed an undergraduate course may be deemed to a mature independent candidate for the purposes of the student grant scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5442/13]
Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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For student grants purposes, students are categorised according to their circumstances either as students dependent on parents or a legal guardian, or as independent mature students. A student may be assessed as an independent mature student if he/she has attained the age of 23 on the 1st of January of the year of first entry to an approved course or of re-entry following a break in studies of at least three years and is not ordinarily resident with his/her parents from the previous 1 October. Otherwise he/she would continue to be assessed on the basis of his/her parents' income.
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