Mr. Fintan Hourihan:

As I have said, the most significant thing I would ask the Minister, by which I mean the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris, as much as the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, to consider in the morning is properly funding the schools so that the vast majority of our graduates are from the EEA, because they are likely to work here. There is no doubt but that the country cannot afford to plan based on all the dentists we need coming from the Irish dental schools. I am mindful that there is also a dental school in Belfast, whose graduates may practise in the Republic.