Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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413. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of students with a disability who have progressed from second to third-level education in 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form. [35980/21]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The HEA collect data on enrolments of students with a disability data by way of the Equal Access Survey for full-time undergraduate 1st year new entrants, where respondents can self-identify as having a disability. This survey does not provide details on how many of these students came from the Irish second level school system.

The table attached gives the undergraduate data for the most recent years available. The data given for the 2019/20 year is the latest available. Data is not available for 2018/19 as the Equal Access Survey was anonymised that year due to data protection concerns.

Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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414. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of third-level students with a disability who have achieved HETAC level 7 or higher in 2019, 2020 and to date in 2021, in tabular form. [35981/21]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The HEA collect data on enrolments of students with a disability by way of the Equal Access Survey where respondents can self identify as having a disability.

Therefore these numbers are only an indication as the data only captures graduates that were full-time undergraduate 1st years in the same HEI. The postgraduate level data can only be used as s reference guide, since linking is based on internal student ID, and those that answered the equal access survey and identified as having a disability.

The table attached gives the data for the 3 most recent years available, 2016/17, 2017/18 and 2018/19 .