Dáil Éireann Debate, Wednesday - 14 July 2021
273. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the percentage of on-campus accommodation provided to international students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38419/21]
View answerUniversities are autonomous bodies under the Universities Act 1997, and are therefore administratively independent, including in relation to their accommodation allocation practices. Therefore the information requested by the Deputy would be held by the universities themselves, not by my Department.
The synopsis available in the attached table was provided by the Universities for the National Student Accommodation Strategy, based on data from the 2016/2017 academic year. However these breakdowns may be been changed in the intervening years.
|
Institution |
1st Year Students |
Continuing Students (incl. Post-Grads) |
International Students |
Special Circumstances |
|
Trinity College Dublin |
40% |
31% |
22% |
7% |
|
University College Dublin |
32% |
11% |
46% |
11% |
|
Maynooth University |
55% |
20% |
25% |
8% of previous categories |
|
Dublin City University |
75% between these categories - data is not split out |
25% |
Data not split out for this category |
|
|
University of Limerick |
40% |
35% |
25% |
Data not split out for this category |
|
NUI Galway |
No split data provided other than accommodation is reserved for first year and international students only |
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University College Cork |
38% |
29% |
33% |
Data not split out for this category |
