Gay Mitchell
Ceist:160 Mr. G. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will review the rules governing the payment of grants for persons such as a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [25776/99]
Vol. 512 No. 2
160 Mr. G. Mitchell asked the Minister for Education and Science if he will review the rules governing the payment of grants for persons such as a person (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [25776/99]
The higher education grant schemes operate under the Local Authorities (Higher Education Grants) Acts, 1968 to 1992. These Acts define a mature student to mean a person of not less than 23 years of age, or such other age as may stand specified for the time being in regulations made by the Minister with the consent of the Minister for Finance, who have secured places in approved institutions and have reached that age on the 1 January, or such other date as may be prescribed from time to time by the Minister with the consent of the Minister for Finance, in the year of entry to such institutions. The Acts further provide, inter alia, for the making of grants to mature students whose means and those of their parents, where the mature students are dependent on their parents, and the means of their spouses, if any, do not exceed prescribed limits.