Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire (Cork South Central, Sinn Fein)
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322. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated cost to reverse changes to the non-adjacent grant levels. [35247/19]

Joe McHugh (Donegal, Fine Gael)
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The cost of reversing the change to the distance criteria for the student grant is estimated to be in the region of €25.9m.

The above costing assumes that a change to the distance criterion would result in a similar percentage of students qualifying for the higher non-adjacent grant support, as existed pre Budget 2011.