Vol. 505 No. 3
251 Cecilia Keaveney asked the Minister for Education and Science the reason a person (details supplied) in County Donegal is not receiving a grant in view of the fact he is over 15 miles from his school; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13470/99]
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 grantholder's normal residence is 15 miles or less from the col lege which he or she is attending. The non-adjacent rate of maintenance grant is payable in all other cases.
I understand from Donegal Vocational Education Committee, the body entrusted with administration of the maintenance grants scheme for students attending post-leaving certificate courses, that the normal residence of the student in question is 15 miles from the school that he is attending and therefore the student is entitled to the adjacent rate of maintenance grant.
I believe that the existing arrangements are reasonable and I have no plans to review the qualifying criteria for adjacent-non-adjacent rate of maintenance grant.
