Joe Walsh
Ceist:86 Mr. J. Walsh asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will have arrangements made to approve an application under the students' summer jobs scheme by a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [11286/96]
Written Answers. - Students' Summer Jobs Scheme.
The underlying purpose of the students' summer jobs scheme is to provide income support for the less well-off third level students who are disqualified from receiving unemployment assistance and are unable to obtain summer work.
Taking account of the upward trend in the number of students participating in the scheme since its inception, priority this year is being given to enabling the maximum number of eligible students who have no other means of support, to participate. The main focus of the scheme this year therefore is to provide places for third level students who are disqualified from claiming unemployment assistance.
As the person concerned will complete a course of studies at the Regional Technical College, Tralee, this month, he is entitled to claim unemployment assistance if he cannot find work during the summer period. For the reasons already stated he is not therefore eligible to participate in the scheme.