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Third Level Education

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 1 March 2022

Tuesday, 1 March 2022

Questions (566)

Paul Donnelly

Question:

566. Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of dentists that graduated from respective third-level colleges in 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form. [11232/22]

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The number of dental graduates for the three most recent years available - 2018, 2019 and 2020 - are available in the table below. These figures are taken from the HEA's Student Records System (SRS).

Higher Education Institution

2018

2019

2020

Trinity College Dublin

40

45

42

University College Cork

38

50

47

Grand Total

78

95

89

It should be noted that these figures refer only to graduates from undergraduate dentistry/dental science courses, and do not include dental nurses, hygienists or technologists.

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