Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 July 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation, and Taoiseach

Engagement with the Taoiseach

2:00 am

Photo of Micheál MartinMicheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail)

That is a fair point. The short answer is that we are. There is an overall skills forum which tries to identify skill needs into the future. We have also been increasing throughput in the medicine area over the past number years. The Department of higher education has worked with the Department of Health on this. In fact, we have secured places in Northern Ireland for medical students. The Deputy is correct; we also need to do more on therapists and dentists. The issue with radiation therapists was forecast some time ago because there are parallel developments of private radiation oncology and public radiation oncology. I remember having a row 20 years ago with the private-----

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