2139. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of first-year students enrolled in Maynooth University for the 2025-2026 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59126/25]
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A subject heading for parliamentary questionsThird Level Admissions
71 questions from 25 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 13 October 2026.
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| October 2026 | 1 |
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2140. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of students which are enrolled in Maynooth University for the 2025-2026 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59127/25]
2141. Deputy Joe Neville asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of students from DCU enrolled in Lyons Farm in Celbridge for the 2025-2026 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [59128/25]
2146. Deputy Paula Butterly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if it is appropriate for publicly funded universities to maintain entry criteria that are unrelated to the content of the course and that exclude otherwise qualified applicants; and if he will take steps to ensure that the NUI foreign language requirement is reformed so as not to disadvantage students unf…
883. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for an update on plans to align CAO and UCAS results dates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56645/25]
898. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the redress available to a person (details supplied) who appealed their leaving certificate results and then had enough points to qualify for their first choice university course, but were precluded due to the time involved in the appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56845/25]
408. Deputy Roderic O'Gorman asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science his plans for a more equitable lottery system with minimum points for CAO entry to third level education; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56093/25]
330. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of students in 2024/2025 from the 26 counties that have applied to universities in the North, by county, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54075/25]
331. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for an update on plans to address grade equivalencies between North and South; the efforts to make all-Ireland student mobility more accessible; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54077/25]
722. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of students from the Twenty-six Counties who applied to universities and colleges in the North of Ireland, by county, per year between 2020 and 2025, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53054/25]
723. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science for an update on plans to align CAO and UCAS results dates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53055/25]
990. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if it is possible for a student who applied through the CAO system to pursue her nursing qualification using her QQI level 5 results in pre-nursing in lieu of insufficient points from the leaving certificate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52045/25]
116. Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of leaving certificate holders who accepted a university place in each of the past ten years; the number of persons who graduated from university in each of the past ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37510/25]
152. Deputy Colm Burke asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to confirm that he has engaged with both Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork with a view to increasing the number of Irish students that will be accommodated in dental training courses, in view of the fact that over 44% of training positions at the moment are provided to non-European students; a…
925. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he is aware the leaving certificate class of 2025 will compete for college places against applicants from previous years who benefitted from inflated grades, putting this year's class at a disadvantage; if he will increase university capacity to offset this anomaly; and if he will make a statement o…
926. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science following the move to reduce grade inflation, the measures he will introduce to mitigate against the class of 2025 being disadvantaged when competing for college places against applicants with inflated results from previous years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30788/25]
684. Deputy Ryan O'Meara asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the immediate opportunities available to a student looking to commence a level 8 course in September 2025 but currently fails to meet the maths requirement for enrolment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28482/25]
686. Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the reason there are still the same number of dental students as 25 years ago; the reason most of these are from overseas; and the number of dental students registered in each of the past 25 years, along with details on their nationality, in tabular form. [28509/25]
687. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the cost of increasing new entrant undergraduate places for medicine, dental studies, nursing and midwifery, and all health and social care professions by 10%, providing the unit cost for each, the number of existing places for each, and the number of additional places for each, in tabular form [28614/25]
688. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of year-one student enrolments in medical, dental, nursing, and health and social care professions, for each intake year for 2022-2024, in tabular form; the number of CAO places; and the cost of each place. [28615/25]
689. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of student enrolments across all years in medical, dental, nursing, and health and social care professions, for each intake year for 2022-2024, in tabular form; the number of CAO places; and the cost of each place. [28616/25]
690. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of year-one medical enrolments at each institute at undergraduate and graduate level for each year 2022-2024, in tabular form ; the number of CAO places; and the cost of each place. [28617/25]
691. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of medical enrolments across all years at each institute at undergraduate and graduate level for each year 2022-2024, in tabular form ; the number of CAO places; and the cost of each place. [28618/25]
692. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of year-one dental enrolments at each institute at undergraduate and graduate level for each year 2022-2024, in tabular form ; the number of CAO places; and the cost of each place. [28619/25]
693. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of dental enrolments across all years at each institute at undergraduate and graduate level for each year 2022-2024, in tabular form; the number of CAO places; and the cost of each place. [28620/25]