Peadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)
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994. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide details of the third level access programme; the number of persons who have taken part in the programme in each year since it was rolled out, by third level institution, in tabular form; the number of persons from the Traveller community who took part in the course; the number of care leavers who took part; the number of homeless students who took part; the number of migrant students who took part, and so on; if quotas for certain vulnerable groups exist in the programme; if his Department has ever given consideration to a quota system where spaces in the access course are reserved for certain groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12324/23]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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My Department is committed to the continued roll-out of supports and targeted initiatives to tackle educational disadvantage and support equity of access, participation and success in both further and higher education.

The National Access Plan (2022-2028) commits to collection of data on key priority groups including travellers, people in care and those who have experienced homelessness. The data requested is not available to us at this time but will be collected as part of the National Access Plan.