asked the Minister for Education if a student qualifies for a higher education grant in an academic year, other than the first year, on the grounds of means; if the scheme allows him or her to qualify under the means test provisions currently applying for each academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Written Answers. - Higher Education Grant.
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The existing regulations provide that, where a student is following a course of studies which could be approved of under the scheme, and where such student had not qualified for the award of a grant solely on the ground of means, a grant may be awarded with effect from the beginning of the first academic year following the production of evidence that the means requirements of the scheme would now be fulfilled in his case. The means test requirements applicable to the case are those in the scheme of the year the student sat for the leaving certificate examination.