Vol. 539 No. 1
415 Mr. Durkan asked the Minister for Education and Science the payments in respect of third level allowance in the year ending 5 April 2001 in the case of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18697/01]
Under the third level student support schemes, operated under the aegis of my Department, means-tested 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 college which he or she is attending. The non-adjacent rate of maintenance grant is payable in all other cases, with the exception of all eligible mature students who, with effect from the 1999-2000 academic year, qualify for the higher non-adjacent rate of grant regardless of distance from college. For 2000-01 the non-adjacent and adjacent rates of maintenance grant are £1,775 and £710, respectively.
My Department understands from County Kildare VEC, the body charged with administering the scheme in this case, that the student in question is in receipt of the full non-adjacent rate of grant under the third level maintenance grant scheme for trainees 2000, while attending the first year of a two year course at Tallaght Institute of Technology.
It is a matter for the student concerned to obtain from Tallaght IT a statement of actual grant payments made to him in the year to 5 April 2001.
