Mr. David O'Flynn:

I do not have the exact number. The Senator can take it from the figures I am about to give that the vast majority of the people in question are Ukrainian. The Dental Council has created a new pathway to registration for any dentist who has been granted international protection in Ireland. That covers Ukrainians and also Afghans, Syrians and Yemenis. The Dental Council has received applications from about 176 people who have been granted international protection. We have a process for assessing those applications. Somewhere in the order of 140 have been assessed or are in the process of being assessed. Approximately 90 of them have been either registered fully or offered a period of adaptation in which they are entitled to practise. We are looking at a situation where about two thirds of those who have applied are able to enter the workforce, either directly as fully independent practitioners or under a period of adaptation.