Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 28 April 2021
776. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science further to Parliamentary Question No. 1298 of 21 April 2021, if this is an exhaustive list of all quotas on intake numbers applied to third level courses by any Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22216/21]
View answerAccording to the information available to me, the quotas in relation to primary school teaching, nursing and medicine are the only quotas determined by government departments.
Higher Education Institutions are autonomous bodies, and, aside from where a quota has been set, can determine the places available in a given course. However even when there are no formal quotas imposed practical restrictions to expansion exist in many courses, including in relation to staffing ratios, laboratory space, or clinical and other professional placements.
