Vol. 451 No. 8
156 Mr. R. Burke asked the Minister for Education the reason children living abroad with their parents who are working abroad on a long term contract are debarred from applying for third-level grants and are treated as foreigners rather than locals. [7336/95]
Under the terms of the third level student support schemes the candidates parents-guardians, or, in the case of an independent mature candidate, the candidate herself-himself must have been ordinarily resident on 1 October of the previous year in the administrative area of a local authority.
This provision applies equally to all candidates whether Irish or from another EU member state. The grant schemes do, however, allow the awarding bodies discretion to waive the residency requirement in exceptional circumstances.
