Ms Niamh Muldoon:

What we have access to is the vets who come onto our register. We can tell where they have qualified, be that UCD, Budapest or Warsaw. We know the CAO is an unforgiving system. We see the qualified vets returning from different places of qualification but we do not see those who qualify abroad and never join our register. We do not have access to that information. In terms of the leakage of those qualifying from, say, Budapest of Irish origin who do not return to practice in Ireland, we will never know. We only see the vets who return to join our register and practice in Ireland.