Carol Nolan (Offaly, Sinn Fein)
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139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost of reversing the change to the adjacent rate of the student grant, reducing it from 45 km to 28 km; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12186/16]

Richard Bruton (Dublin Bay North, Fine Gael)
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The cost of reversing the change to the adjacent rate of the Student Grant, reducing it from 45 kilometres to 28 kilometres; is estimated to be in the region of €27 million.

Prior to the introduction of the 45 km rule, circa three-quarters of all maintenance grant holders qualified for the higher non-adjacent grant support. The above costing assumes that a change to the 28 km rule will result in a similar number of students qualifying for the higher non-adjacent grant support.