Mr. Aidan Tumbleton:

To be perfectly honest, I am not 100% sure. Both titles have been interchangeable for a long time. The Irish professional group had settled on the title "podiatrist" around the time that the 2005 Act was passed as the title it was going to use in future. As Ms Fantini has said, there is still a bit of carryover and perhaps a generational thing where some people will still use the title "chiropodist". I think that the third-level course is now called podiatry but we think, for the protection of the public and to remove ambiguity, we need to cover both titles.