Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

As the Senator said, every year student nurses leave. Typically they work for a year after they graduate and then a large proportion of them leave. We have offered every graduating student nurse a place this year. Ms Hoey can speak about how that is going. More are leaving, partly because the could not leave in recent years. As Ms Hoey said, we try to keep in touch with them. That is where the effort will be made to ensure that when they come back towards Europe, they come back into the healthcare system.