Dan Neville (Limerick, Fine Gael)
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89. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person (details supplied) should apply for a grant under the higher education grant or the vocational education committee. [28352/13]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Students commencing a new course in the academic year 2013/14 are required to submit their grant application to Student Universal Support Ireland (SUSI) via www.susi.ie. to have their eligibility for grant assistance assessed.

To satisfy the terms and conditions of the student grant scheme in relation to progression, a student must be moving from year to year within a course having successfully completed the previous year or be transferring from one course to another where the award for the subsequent course is of a higher level than the previous course.

In the absence of all of the details that would be contained in an individuals application form, it is not possible for me to say how a student should be assessed. However, from the details presented by the Deputy, it would appear that the student may not be progressing to a course at a higher level.