Joe Flaherty (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Ms Muldoon will probably feel we are going back over the same issue but I would make the point that the VCI probably should have been doing that. If there was a specific section in the 2005 Act that said that practices should not be incorporating then the VCI probably should have been doing that at the time. I accept that it was not being done. I will ask Ms Muldoon an easy question to finish up with. There are 3,175 vets and 28% of them would have qualified abroad. Some 55% of new entrants studied abroad. There is a case to be made that we should probably have an additional route into veterinary in Ireland.