75 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to an anomaly in the higher education grant system in which a student’s whole family income is assessed for awarding of a higher education grant at the full non-adjacent rate, but when the student’s family passes the reckonable income limit for receipt of the special rate of grant but the family income is received by a non-biological parent of the student, and the biological parent is unable to receive a social welfare payment in their own right, the student in financial need is unable to receive the special rate grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14830/11]

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75 Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to an anomaly in the higher education grant system in which a student’s whole family income is assessed for awarding of a higher education grant at the full non-adjacent rate, but when the student’s family passes the reckonable income limit for receipt of the special rate of grant but the family income is received by a non-biological parent of the student, and the biological parent is unable to receive a social welfare payment in their own right, the student in financial need is unable to receive the special rate grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14830/11]

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