102 Deputy Noel Ahern asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the regulation on reckonable income used in the assessment of third level grant applications; if car loans are normally regarded as an asset or as reckonable income or an asset in the assessment of grant applications and the rationale behind same; her views on the case of an application (details supplied) that was refused by Fingal County Council, who included the value of a car loan when they were calculating the family’s annual means; and if the applicant in question who received a grant for the 2009-10 college year can have their application refused when their family’s annual income including the value of car loan has actually decreased by more than 10% since this time last year. [40906/10]

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102 Deputy Noel Ahern asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Education and Skills the regulation on reckonable income used in the assessment of third level grant applications; if car loans are normally regarded as an asset or as reckonable income or an asset in the assessment of grant applications and the rationale behind same; her views on the case of an application (details supplied) that was refused by Fingal County Council, who included the value of a car loan when they were calculating the family’s annual means; and if the applicant in question who received a grant for the 2009-10 college year can have their application refused when their family’s annual income including the value of car loan has actually decreased by more than 10% since this time last year. [40906/10]

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