Professor Frank Murray:

In Ireland 40% of the doctors working in the health services are foreign. This is, I think, the highest rate in the world, but it is certainly the highest rate in the European Union.

That is out of order with the World Health Organisation, WHO code of practice for recruiting doctors from developing countries.

I think we need to focus on trying to ensure that we can recruit and retain people who are coming through the training programmes here. That is what we should focus on doing.