Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 22 February 2022
606. Deputy Rose Conway-Walsh asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of medical places combined across undergraduate and graduate entry medical allocated to European Union students including Britain and Northern Ireland in each year since 2011; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9558/22]
View answerFor the years in question, the Fottrell Report provided the basis on which the level of provision in medical schools is determined. It specifies that an intake of between 700 and 740 EU students per annum is required to move towards national self-sufficiency. This target marked a more than doubling of the number of EU students who were accepted in to medical schools at the time the report was published.
The number of first year enrolments in medicine courses, by domicile, is available in the table below for the years 2012 to 2020. The data is as reported on the HEA's Student Records System (SRS). It should be noted that there are some reliability issues for domicile data collected in earlier years.
|
Row Labels |
Ireland |
Northern Ireland |
Great Britain |
(Other) EU |
Non-EU |
Total |
|
2012/2013 |
671 |
10 |
37 |
12 |
418 |
1148 |
|
2013/2014 |
673 |
14 |
45 |
11 |
462 |
1205 |
|
2014/2015 |
718 |
13 |
49 |
10 |
468 |
1258 |
|
2015/2016 |
675 |
16 |
63 |
8 |
524 |
1286 |
|
2016/2017 |
672 |
11 |
34 |
16 |
510 |
1243 |
|
2017/2018 |
665 |
9 |
30 |
14 |
577 |
1295 |
|
2018/2019 |
664 |
7 |
37 |
13 |
598 |
1319 |
|
2019/2020 |
692 |
8 |
18 |
14 |
619 |
1351 |
|
2020/2021 |
721 |
8 |
12 |
13 |
649 |
1403 |
