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

It is déjà vu.

On the engagement of graduates, in her presentation Ms Ní Sheaghdha said there would need to be a 50% uplift in the numbers we were training to shore up the deficit. Are efforts being made with the colleges to that end? It would be an awful shame if any effort to increase numbers was only to the benefit of the private sector, as well as hospitals in Britain, America, Australia and everywhere else our graduates have gone. Is this work ongoing with the colleges to build capacity? Some of the colleges are full to capacity. Is that plan in place?