Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 27 January 2021
588. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of applicants to the CAO that did not receive an offer in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3919/21]
View answerUniversities and Institutes of Technology are autonomous and determine their own procedures for admission. The CAO process applications for undergraduate, and some postgraduate, courses on their behalf.
Decisions on admissions are made by the higher education institutions who then instruct the CAO to make offers to successful candidates. Therefore neither I nor my Department have a function in relation to such matters and information on application figures is held by the CAO, not by my Department.
According to figures published by the CAO, 61,309 applicants received at least one offer as part of the 2020 application cycle, meaning 81% of the 78,168 applicants received an offer. This is an increase on 2019 when 61,309 (78%) of 77,706 applicants received an offer.
The following revised reply was received on 29 January 2021.
According to figures published by the CAO, 63,858 applicants received at least one offer as part of the 2020 application cycle, meaning 82% of the 78,168 applicants received an offer. This is an increase on 2019 when 61,309 (79%) of 77,706 applicants received an offer.
