Mattie McGrath
Question:235 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person who is under financial difficulties and is being assisted by the Money Advice and Budgetary Agency can be refused a higher education grant for their children to continue in third level education; the contacts he has had with other State agencies who are assisting families in difficult financial circumstances or who are availing of advice from MABS; how he suggests families in such difficult financial circumstances can send their children to third level education; his plans to review the criteria for higher education grants to take into account families' expenditure on rent, mortgages and other household loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21450/12]
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