Dr. Mick Molloy:

We do not have the figures on that. The Medical Council keeps the register and many people who have re-registered have not been off the register. The numbers are small. It tends to happen when people are in their 40s or 50s and looking at a different settling period in life. We do not have hard figures on that. By walking into hospitals and looking at the profile of the staff, one can see people in their early to mid-20s and people from their 40s and 50s on. The group in the middle seems to be quite small.