ICSA voice concerns over student grants

Added: 09-08-2012

The Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers' Association has added its voice to concerns over changes to the assessments of third level maintenance grants.

There are concerns that productive assets, such as farmland, could be included in the assessment and could result in children from low income farm families being excluded.

I-C-S-A President and Sligo farmer, Gabriel Gilmartin, says according to Teagasc the average 30 to 50 hectare farm generated an income of between 14 and 20 thousand euro last year.

He says these figures will be even lower this year as the bad weather impacts on farming: