Vol. 398 No. 2
35 Miss Coughlan asked the Minister for Education if third level grant aid will be made available in future for Irish students attending third level colleges and universities in Great Britain; and if she will make a statement on the matter.
The higher education grants scheme and the vocational education scholarship scheme provides that grants shall be tenable in respect of degree and other approved courses of higher education in Ireland. The purpose of this requirement in the schemes of financial assistance operated under the aegis of my Department is to give financial assistance to students ordinarily resident in Ireland who reach a minimum standard in the leaving certificate examination of the Department of Education but who, because of family circumstances, might not be in a position to proceed to a university or other approved third level course in Ireland.
I have no plans to amend the schemes of assistance along the lines suggested by the Deputy.
