Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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163. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of graduate entry medical students in each year since 2006, excluding non-EU international students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56390/21]

Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein)
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166. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of places in medicine in each institution by undergraduate and graduate entry medicine for students from Ireland, Northern Ireland, the UK, other EU and non-EU international since 2016, excluding those repeating first year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56427/21]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 163 and 166 together.

The attached Excel spreadsheet contains information relating to PQs 56390/21, and 56427/21, as regards (a) the number of graduate entry medical students in each year since 2006, excluding non-EU international students, and (b) the number of places in medicine in each institution by undergraduate and graduate entry medicine for students from Ireland, Northern Ireland, the UK, other EU and non-EU international since 2016, excluding those repeating first year.

It should be noted that that the data provided for PQ 56390/21 – requesting the number of graduate entry medicine enrolments for IE and EU domiciled students dating back to 2006 – is provided in two separate sheets. This is to take account of the reclassification of ISCED codes for medicine in 2014/2015. Also, please note that data in this area is only available back as far as 2007/2008. Data is provided for year 1 students only, and the total number of students across all years of study.

Sheet 3 in the attached provides the total number of year 1 medicine enrolments across HEIs, broken down by domicile (PQ 56427/21).

Ensuring that there is a sufficient number of places, and of trained healthcare professionals, is a matter of great importance to me and my Department, and my Department and the Department of Health are liaising in this matter.