Jonathan O'Brien (Cork North Central, Sinn Fein)
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To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of foreign students that Educate Ireland has attracted to third level institutions here in the 2011/12 academic year. [41360/12]

Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour)
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Enterprise Ireland undertake out an annual review of international students in higher education in Ireland.

The results of the most recent survey, which covers the 2011/2012 academic year, are being finalised. The initial figures provided by Enterprise Ireland indicate that there were around 32,000 international students registered in public and private Irish higher education institutions in Ireland. Of these, 7,000 were offshore or studying through distance education (i.e. not in Ireland).