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 need to have approximately 100 places per year, first to provide training places for the large numbers of leaving certificate students who currently have to leave the country and second, to get into that economic sweet spot where the cost per head per student is distributed so that we are able to hire top quality staff and pay them. We need to be in the 100 to 150 student zone. It needs to be done on scale and rapidly and as far as we are concerned the only provider in the country at the moment shovel ready and at scale is UL.