Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I have two sets of questions. I thank everybody for their contributions. My first question is for Ms Clyne and it concerns non-EU doctors. They now make up 53% of all doctors and more than one third of doctors in the health service are trained abroad. Those doctors are highly trained and highly motivated, but there seems to be a glass ceiling for them regarding career paths and achieving better prospects in the Irish health system. Will the proposed change in the legislation under way in the Oireachtas, and which will be implemented in June 2021, make a difference to that set of doctors? I ask that because the submission from the IMO referred to the major shortage of consultants in the Irish health system. At the same time, however, we also have this cohort of highly educated and highly motivated doctors who seem to be discriminated against. Will Ms Clyne please comment on that aspect?