Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 10 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion

Photo of Brian LeddinBrian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I welcome our guests. This is a very important discussion by any look at the numbers of graduates and the numbers of graduate vets registering. I believe 82 or 83 are coming out of vet school, but something like 320 young vets register in the country every year. The balance, the 240 or so, are training overseas. I understand half of them are Irish people who have gone overseas and the other half are people who are not from Ireland who are coming here to work. There is therefore clearly a very significant need for this new school, and it makes sense to have it in Limerick. I think the witnesses will not necessarily-----

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