Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 1 February 2023

Select Committee on Education and Skills

Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 45 - Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (Revised)

Photo of Niall CollinsNiall Collins (Limerick County, Fianna Fail)
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There is an appreciation of the urgency on our side. When the intention is to try, between dentistry, pharmacy, medicine, nursing and veterinary, to have these up and running in the 2024, 2025 or 2026 at the latest, there is a degree of urgency. Some 39 expressions of interest were received by the HEA across all five disciplines, of which 20 were proposals to deliver new courses and 19 to expand on existing courses.