Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Dr. Brian Turner referred to the possibility of medical staff giving back after their education and training. It is an issue with which I have a problem. This is never suggested for architects or anyone else who has the capacity to avail of a good education system. Can we find a way to incentivise our health professionals? It is not that long ago when nurses left college, went abroad for six months or a year and then came back to work in the public health service. There was no need to coerce them to do so. If we insisted health professionals had to give back, would Dr. Brian Turner not agree we would have to do it for every cohort of professionals? I do not know what arts graduates like myself would give back.