Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 10 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion
Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Speaking with another hat on as Chair of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education, Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, we have had a number of meetings over the last month or so on science, technology, engineering and mathematics, STEM, subjects, and veterinary medicine was mentioned more broadly in some of the witnesses' statements. When the HEA was considering its proposal and making its recommendations to the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, and his Department, was the idea of giving agriculture students an opportunity to go further and to study veterinary medicine considered?