Mr. Ian Fleming:

I will answer that question. I have a bit of experience in this because I am an elected member of the Veterinary Council of Ireland but I am not wearing that hat this evening. There are accreditation standards that allow people to move between countries and Europe of course has that under what it calls the European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education, EAEVE which is the accreditation body that covers the whole of Europe. Anybody who is trained in other European countries can move into Ireland and work. If someone is coming from further afield we have an accreditation which allows students who qualify here go straight into the United States and Canada and vice versa. They do not tend to come vice versa but that is there. There is also the question put earlier by Deputy Mairéad Farrell about the islands and the fact there are South African doctors practising there. There is an accreditation standard with one of the veterinary schools in South Africa. Those elements are there and it is a two-way street.