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

The regulation came in where there was an obligation to go through a set training process to get onto the specialist register here in Ireland as a medical practitioner and there was an issue with people who trained under the old system. For argument’s sake, let us say that the regulation came in on 1 January. Anyone who was already in a consultant post on 1 January immediately got onto the specialist register but anyone who took up a job on 1 March and they had trained under the old system were not entitled to get onto the specialist register. We had to do amending legislation in the last two years to deal with that particular issue. Have we made sure that we do not have a glitch like that in the system that we are looking at the moment?