Michael Lowry (Tipperary, Independent)
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318. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the new dental school at University College Cork; when it will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14415/23]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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UCC submitted their Dental School project to the Higher Education Authority for consideration under the Higher Education Capacity Building process.

This process was developed to identify opportunities in the Higher Education system to build capacity in Dentistry, Pharmacy, Medicine, Nursing, and Veterinary Medicine programmes.

The Higher Education Authority will consider opportunities for new programme provision alongside options for current programme expansion to determine a final list of options to present to me shortly.

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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319. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the courses related to health and social care that are covered by the accelerated graduate programme; the number of students who graduated from each course in each of the past five years, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14481/23]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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There are two-year professional qualification programmes available in the University of Limerick at Masters level in the disciplines of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy and Speech and Language therapy. The data for the most recently available five years of graduates from these programmes is in the table below. This data was sourced from the Student Records System (SRS) of the HEA.