235 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person who is under financial difficulties and is being assisted by the Money Advice and Budgetary Agency can be refused a higher education grant for their children to continue in third level education; the contacts he has had with other State agencies who are assisting families in difficult financial circumstances or who are availing of advice from MABS; how he suggests families in such difficult financial circumstances can send their children to third level education; his plans to review the criteria for higher education grants to take into account families' expenditure on rent, mortgages and other household loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21450/12]

Summary

235 Deputy Mattie McGrath asked the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a person who is under financial difficulties and is being assisted by the Money Advice and Budgetary Agency can be refused a higher education grant for their children to continue in third level education; the contacts he has had with other State agencies who are assisting families in difficult financial circumstances or who are availing of advice from MABS; how he suggests families in such difficult financial circumstances can send their children to third level education; his plans to review the criteria for higher education grants to take into account families' expenditure on rent, mortgages and other household loans; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21450/12]

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Higher Education Grants

  xml · EN · 1 May 2012

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.