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Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 8 Nov 1989

Vol. 392 No. 8

Written Answers. - Milk Cessation Scheme.

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asked the Minister for Education the criteria used by her Department for assessing benefits from the milk cessation scheme for the purpose of calculating income in respect of higher education grant applicants; and if she will make a statement on the matter.

I understand that under the community milk cessation scheme milk producers who surrender their milk quotas may be entitled to receive payments under this scheme provided they discontinue milk production for seven years or while the super-levy remains in force. Under these schemes, payments to eligible persons will be made in seven annual instalments.

Under the terms of the higher education grants scheme the reckonable income to be determined for the purposes of the award of a grant is gross income from all sources of the candidate and his/her parents, less any sum paid by way of contribution to a superannuation fund, and excluding, also, children's allowances under the Social Welfare Acts, holiday earnings, if any, of the candidate and payments under the family income supplement scheme.

My Department have indicated to the local authorities, who administer the higher education grants scheme, that for the purpose of determining reckonable income under this scheme, payments under the milk cessation scheme, Parts 1 or 2, should be included in the reckonable income of the year it is received.

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