Mr. Fintan Hourihan:

The main providers of dental graduates are the dental schools in Cork and Dublin. There is also a school in Belfast. Approximately 90 dentists graduate each year from the schools in Cork and Dublin. Of that number, a majority originate from outside the EEA. They may be coming from the Far East, for example, or Canada. Our experience is that the vast majority of those students, when they complete their education in Cork or Dublin, go back to their countries of origin.