Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for making the time available to us, for their presentation this morning, and for the discussion paper published in October. It has a lot of very good information and it is about planning the way forward.

I am coming from a scenario I saw some five years ago when I was in the UK. At the time there were more than 5,000 GP vacancies there. In the area we were in, there was one practice with some 20,000 patients and all of the GPs resigned in the one day leaving a whole area without any practice whatsoever. Those were the challenges over in the UK. I do not want us to go down that road.

I would like to go over the numbers of people in training. My understanding is that 932 people are in training at the moment. Of those, how many will qualify and will have the full four years done in 2023?