Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is important that we know how many places were taken up last year and the courses for which there was excess demand. The pressure that students have been under was referred to earlier. The way to alleviate pressure is to make sure there are extra places in the high-demand courses and also feed that through to the colleges to ensure that if infrastructure or extra tutors are needed, they will be provided in those subjects and courses. We need to ensure that happens. Does the Minister know how many extra tutors were employed last year within the third level institutions?