Mr. Jimmy Quinn:

I will. We need to be clear that any accredited veterinary school has to produce a general practitioner. There is a difficulty in designing a school to produce a specific outcome. There has to be a multi-competent graduate across all the species. Fortunately or unfortunately, a school designed to a specific animal purpose is not a runner because it will not get past the accreditation bodies, for example, the Veterinary Council of Ireland, VCI, the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, RCVS, or the European Association of Establishments for Veterinary Education, EAEVE. You are allowed to develop specialisations post qualification, but not ahead of qualification. In my case, I specialise in embryo work in pedigree cattle, but as an undergraduate, I had to qualify to be capable to work across cats, dogs, horses, pigs, sheep, cattle, the works. That has not changed. That requirement is still there.