Under the student support schemes, maintenance grants are payable at either adjacent or non-adjacent rates. The adjacent rate of maintenance grant is payable where the grant-holder's normal residence is 15 miles or less from the college which he or she is attending. The non-adjacent rate of maintenance grant is payable in all other cases.
I understand from Dublin Corporation, the body statutorily entrusted with the administration of the higher education grants scheme, that the normal residence of the student in question is within 15 miles of Tallaght Institute of Technology and that therefore the student is only entitled to the adjacent rate of maintenance. Under the terms of the scheme the local authority is responsible for determining the rate applicable in each particular case.