Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Has the Department any data about the full extent of people's interest in pursuing veterinary medicine as a career? We were told earlier there are 135 places in UCD, and numerous people do not get onto the course. Some students, perhaps for monetary reasons, are not able to go to a foreign county to study. Have we any idea how many people are put off doing veterinary medicine because they cannot get onto a courses a result of there being so few places? Has the Department any working assumptions as to how to arrest that situation?