Ned O'Keeffe
Question:723 Mr. E. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Social Welfare whether he will approve an application lodged under the student summer job scheme in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [15181/96]
Written Answers. - Student Summer Jobs Scheme.
The underlying purpose of the scheme is to provide income support for less well off third level students who are disqualified from receiving unemployment assistance and are unable to obtain summer work.
In order for to qualify for the scheme, students must satisfy a means test which is broadly similar to that which is applied for entitlement to unemployment assistance. Those who establish a minimum entitlement to unemployment assistance are approved to participate and issued with a job certificate.
As the person concerned does not satisfy the means test, she does not qualify to participate in the scheme.