Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein)
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565. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of physiotherapists that graduated from respective third-level colleges in 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form. [11231/22]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Physiotherapy graduate data for the three latest years available - 2018, 2019 and 2020 - is available in the table below. The data given is for courses allowing qualification as a physiotherapist, and does not include graduates from postgraduate courses undertaken by existing physiotherapists. This data is taken from the HEA's Student Records System (SRS)

In Trinity College Dublin there is a higher number of graduates than can be accounted for by the intake to its physiotherapy course. This is due to a partnership between Trinity College Dublin and Nanyang Polytechnic in Singapore. Students from Nanyang Polytechnic complete three years of their degree in their home institution, and the final year in Trinity College. They are therefore counted among the graduates for that year, but do not appear in the initial intake for that course.

Paul Donnelly (Dublin West, Sinn Fein)
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566. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of dentists that graduated from respective third-level colleges in 2019, 2020 and 2021, in tabular form. [11232/22]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The number of dental graduates for the three most recent years available - 2018, 2019 and 2020 - are available in the table below. These figures are taken from the HEA's Student Records System (SRS).

It should be noted that these figures refer only to graduates from undergraduate dentistry/dental science courses, and do not include dental nurses, hygienists or technologists.