176. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that when a student under 23 is estranged from their parents that Student Universal Support Ireland will only accept evidence of estrangement from a Health Service Executive social worker for the purposes of attesting to the veracity of the claim for the purposes of the student grant system; that students who do not have previous social worker involvement will be unable to comply with this, as a HSE social worker will not see them if they are over 18; the ways in which a student may prove their estrangement from their parents in the absence of ability to see a HSE social worker; and his plans to address this barrier to accessing education for students. [52589/13]

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176. Deputy Jonathan O'Brien asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to the fact that when a student under 23 is estranged from their parents that Student Universal Support Ireland will only accept evidence of estrangement from a Health Service Executive social worker for the purposes of attesting to the veracity of the claim for the purposes of the student grant system; that students who do not have previous social worker involvement will be unable to comply with this, as a HSE social worker will not see them if they are over 18; the ways in which a student may prove their estrangement from their parents in the absence of ability to see a HSE social worker; and his plans to address this barrier to accessing education for students. [52589/13]

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