Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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776. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1298 of 21 April 2021, if this is an exhaustive list of all quotas on intake numbers applied to third level courses by any Department; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22216/21]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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According to the information available to me, the quotas in relation to primary school teaching, nursing and medicine are the only quotas determined by government departments.

Higher Education Institutions are autonomous bodies, and, aside from where a quota has been set, can determine the places available in a given course. However even when there are no formal quotas imposed practical restrictions to expansion exist in many courses, including in relation to staffing ratios, laboratory space, or clinical and other professional placements.

Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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778. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliamentary Question No. 1298 of 21 April 2021, if his Department or the HEA collect or collate data on initiatives or mechanisms used by higher education institutes in relation to increasing and supporting cross-Border enrolment on the island of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22218/21]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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On occasions, reports are jointly commissioned by key Government Departments, North and South on cross-Border enrolments - the last such report An Analysis of Existing Statistics on Student Flows between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in Higher Education was published in December 2018 jointly by the Higher Education Authority, the Department of Education and Skills and the Department for the Economy in Northern Ireland.

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) are autonomous and manage their own academic affairs including admissions procedures. The CAO manages applications for undergraduate courses on behalf of the HEIs.