Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 24 May 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

New School of Veterinary Medicine: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Jimmy Quinn:

We were very lucky early on in this process to come across Professor Matt Jones in the UK. He has been involved in the set up of the last two vet schools in the UK - Surrey and the Harper and Keele Veterinary School. The rationale for the Harper and Keele Veterinary School is to produce more people to go into food production animal veterinary so he is an expert on designing educational means of selection and student education to produce that outcome. He has also been very involved in the UL bid and has provided the technical advice to it on how you design a course to produce a vet who will work with farm animals at the end of it if that is what you need.