Dr. Ciaran Browne:

Senator Burke referred to the initial India and Pakistan cohort and the way they were recruited two years ago. It is important to acknowledge there has been a positive contribution by the Indian and Pakistani doctors but we met with a representative group of those doctors, which comprised doctors from sites all over the country working at various levels in different specialties to see how the HSE could better facilitate their general registration with the Medical Council. None of the issues raised by the Senator were among those put on the table by them to cause them not to undertake the registration process. This was a representative group from different parts of the country and they did not highlight the issue he raised. Their significant issue was more to do with how the registration process was set up for them to undertake it.