Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners

Photo of Frances BlackFrances Black (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for coming in. Many of my questions have been covered and I do not want to go over them again. There is, however, one point I want to come back to, which Senator Kyne has touched on. I am aware that it is not referred to in the document but it is about students and the points system. For example, I know of a young woman who all her life wanted to become a doctor. She got only 590 points or 580 points in the leaving certificate although she worked hard. I know she would have been a brilliant doctor. Is this points system something that can be looked at? Can there be another way of measuring whether somebody could be a really good doctor apart from the points system, if that makes sense? I just wanted to throw out that as my first question

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