Ms Heather Cousins:

I am aware that there have been some conversations in the North about veterinary medicine and the fact that is becoming increasingly difficult to get places where traditionally people would have gone to study veterinary medicine. It is the most expensive higher education course that there is. It would be a case of saying “What do you stop doing if that is what you want to do?” because there is no more additional funding. We are having difficult discussions with the agriculture department, etc. We are saying that if this is a high priority, perhaps they could contribute from their budget to that.