Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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737. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Irish students enrolled on joint programmes abroad and in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21465/21]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Neither my Department nor the Higher Education Authority collect the data on the number of students on joint programmes with institutions in other jurisdictions.

Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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738. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of Irish students enrolled in third-level education abroad and in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21466/21]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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According most recent enrolment data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency in the UK, there were 9,140 Irish students in the UK in the 2019/ 2020 academic year.

The Department does not have ready access to data on the number of students in other countries beyond Ireland and the UK.