Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

He or she might do a year in each of three different hospitals. The three-year contract gives certainty to junior doctors. They do not have to worry about going for interview a month after starting a new job. I wonder whether we can develop that here as a national policy. Someone who gets a three-year contract could spend two years in Dublin and a year in a regional location. That would give certainty to junior doctors. I wonder if we could try to move that on. We are going nowhere with it. We are losing a huge number of junior doctors. I learned from a survey of medical students who graduated in 2012 that fewer than 35% of them intend to be working in Irish hospitals by the end of their internship years. Part of the problem is the uncertainty with contracts.