Avril Doyle
Question:97 Mrs. Doyle asked the Minister for Education the reason the income eligibility criteria for third level students in their second or subsequent year of study is based on that pertaining in the year of their leaving certificate; her views on whether it costs as much to keep a second or third year student at third level college as it does a first year student; and the estimated cost to change the income eligibility criteria for all student grants to that applying to current first years.