Written answers
Tuesday, 4 July 2006
Department of Education and Science
Third Level Education
12:00 pm
Seán Fleming (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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Question 659: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the level of participation on a county basis in third level education both on a numbers and a percentage basis for the years 2006, 2000 and 1995; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25668/06]
Mary Hanafin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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The information requested by the Deputy is in the following table. The earliest data available are for 1998/99 and the latest available are for 2003/2004. Data for both of these years have been supplied along with those for 2000/2001.
| Number and Percentage of Full-time Third Level Students by County of normal residence (students normally resident in Ireland before entering Third Level) | ||||||
| 1998/99 | 2000/2001 | 2003/2004 | ||||
| Total | % | Total | % | Total | % | |
| Connaught | ||||||
| Galway | 7,213 | 6.6 | 8,278 | 7.0 | 9,222 | 7.0 |
| Leitrim | 809 | 0.7 | 908 | 0.8 | 1,084 | 0.8 |
| Mayo | 3,925 | 3.6 | 4,426 | 3.8 | 5,128 | 3.9 |
| Roscommon | 1,935 | 1.8 | 2,024 | 1.7 | 2,216 | 1.7 |
| Sligo | 1,896 | 1.7 | 2,229 | 1.9 | 2,441 | 1.9 |
| Leinster | ||||||
| Carlow | 1,320 | 1.2 | 1,491 | 1.3 | 1,590 | 1.2 |
| Dublin | 25,902 | 23.8 | 27,018 | 23.0 | 30,469 | 23.1 |
| Kildare | 3,846 | 3.5 | 4,354 | 3.7 | 5,261 | 4.0 |
| Kilkenny | 2,116 | 1.9 | 2,427 | 2.1 | 2,733 | 2.1 |
| Laois | 1,427 | 1.3 | 1,576 | 1.3 | 1,798 | 1.4 |
| Longford | 1,098 | 1.0 | 1,096 | 0.9 | 1,265 | 1.0 |
| Louth | 2,369 | 2.2 | 2,594 | 2.2 | 3,132 | 2.4 |
| Meath | 3,392 | 3.1 | 3,519 | 3.0 | 4,391 | 3.3 |
| Offaly | 1,712 | 1.6 | 1,829 | 1.6 | 1,972 | 1.5 |
| Westmeath | 2,179 | 2.0 | 2,301 | 2.0 | 2,595 | 2.0 |
| Wexford | 3,095 | 2.8 | 3,224 | 2.7 | 3,563 | 2.7 |
| Wicklow | 2,826 | 2.6 | 2,848 | 2.4 | 3,195 | 2.4 |
| Munster | ||||||
| Clare | 3,292 | 3.0 | 3,597 | 3.1 | 4,055 | 3.1 |
| Cork | 13,890 | 12.8 | 15,123 | 12.9 | 16,426 | 12.5 |
| Kerry | 4,679 | 4.3 | 4,900 | 4.2 | 5,433 | 4.1 |
| Limerick | 5,720 | 5.3 | 6,074 | 5.2 | 6,572 | 5.0 |
| Tipperary | 4,576 | 4.2 | 4,869 | 4.1 | 5,008 | 3.8 |
| Waterford | 2,842 | 2.6 | 2,986 | 2.5 | 3,356 | 2.5 |
| Ulster | ||||||
| Antrim | 286 | 0.3 | 265 | 0.2 | 243 | 0.2 |
| Armagh | 91 | 0.1 | 97 | 0.1 | 98 | 0.1 |
| Cavan | 1,435 | 1.3 | 1,727 | 1.5 | 1,968 | 1.5 |
| Derry | 153 | 0.1 | 143 | 0.1 | 173 | 0.1 |
| Donegal | 3,002 | 2.8 | 3,625 | 3.1 | 3,932 | 3.0 |
| Down | 300 | 0.3 | 306 | 0.3 | 304 | 0.2 |
| Fermanagh | 91 | 0.1 | 95 | 0.1 | 112 | 0.1 |
| Monaghan | 1,250 | 1.1 | 1,345 | 1.1 | 1,577 | 1.2 |
| Tyrone | 163 | 0.1 | 181 | 0.2 | 148 | 0.1 |
| Unspecified (Ireland) | 191 | 0.1 | ||||
| TOTALS | 108,830 | 117,475 | 131,651 | |||
| of which N. Ireland | 1,084 | 1,087 | 1,078 |
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