Mr. Liam Moriarty:

It is a question of how to achieve different outcomes with what people do post graduation. That is a difficult area to tackle. The shortage of vets is a worldwide problem that spans the industry, but particularly in rural areas. We note that UL, with its medicine programme, has a professor of rural medicine and places its students in rural GP practices. I believe that, in percentage terms, it has twice the number of graduates working in general practice compared with other universities, as it has placed an emphasis on general practice. We could achieve the same by placing an emphasis on where people are going to practice when they finish college.

Part will be intake, part will be teaching methods and part will be the question of where they spend their time in university. If university students spend a significant portion of time in a particular type of practice, there is a good chance they will go on to work in that type of practice. UL has a fantastic track record of working with industry. They have achieved it in medicine and we see the university as a strong contender to have a different spectrum of graduates who will work where they are needed the most.