Ruairi Quinn (Dublin South East, Labour) | Oireachtas source

While one cannot be definitive about this, all the evidence we have to date suggests that most of the Irish students who go abroad to study do so in courses that require high levels of points here in Ireland, and which they were unable to get into in the first instance. They include medicine and related medical courses such as physiotherapy, either in England, Scotland or Wales, and in some cases in continental Europe.