Would it not be important to establish what happens to the numbers going through? The degree course is a fairly big cost to the State. Would it not be appropriate to establish what percentage of graduates over the past ten years are now in Ireland, what number have left and at what stage they left? One of the problems is that the State is giving significant funding to the universities and it is about a return to the State for that investment. If we are educating a considerable number of graduates who are leaving, we need to ask what we need to adjust in order to make it more attractive for them to stay, not only for one year but thereafter.

If they need to gain further experience by travelling abroad, we need to work on that issue also. It is one that is coming up. As the delegates are aware, we are facing significant challenges in many areas of the workforce because of a shortage of people. I do not want us to have a shortage of dental practitioners because we have not responded to their needs after they have come out of college. I wonder whether it might be appropriate at this stage to try to find out what level of return we have got from our investment in dental training.