Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Non-consultant hospital doctors from outside the European Union appear to have a particular difficulty at present because no structures are in place for them. There is also a lack of support in place for them. We have more than 6,000 non-consultant hospital doctors working in the healthcare system. A large number of these are not Irish and a large proportion are not European. Are the Department and HSE, together with the training bodies, looking to review how we can set up a better structure for their training because there is a benefit for us in Ireland? Many of them will leave and go off to other countries. This is something we need to look at.