John Brassil (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It seem so obvious that it is quite amazing that we operate the system this way. It really is time to change it. The witnesses went through the training process. If I am correct, we are looking at about 13 years from someone's first day in college, which is an inordinate amount of time. Is there any jurisdiction where psychiatry is a stand-alone qualification where somebody decides at an early stage in his or her career that this is what he or she wants to do, is trained as such, comes out with his or her primary degree and possibly trains for a period of ten years after first starting? Does that occur anywhere else and, if so, is it something at which we could look?