Martin Ferris (Kerry North, Sinn Fein)
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Question 417: To ask the Minister for Education and Science the number of students currently studying agricultural science and rural agribusiness courses. [25398/08]

Batt O'Keeffe (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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I understand from the Higher Education Authority that as of 1st March 2007 there were 1,961 full time undergraduate students on courses in agriculture and related disciplines in the Universities and Institutes of Technology.

Agri-business is not a separate discipline and the HEA is not in a position to extract figures by course title in the time available to answer this question. This information will be compiled and forwarded to the Deputy as soon as possible.