Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

383. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if the back to education allowance will be granted to a person (details supplied) on the grounds that changing discipline to study law, is progressing in education, despite not being an advancement on the NFQ scale. [26663/16]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
Link to this: Individually | In context | Oireachtas source

According to the records of this Department the person concerned applied for a back to education allowance (BTE) and was refused as he was not in receipt of a Department of Social Protection payment.

As the BTE is an administrative scheme, it is not subject to the appeal process but may be reviewed by a more senior officer in the Department. Arising from this parliamentary question the application was reviewed and I can advise that there was no change in the original decision.

I hope this clarifies the matter for the deputy.