Mr. Robert Watt:

I do not think there is a danger. We cannot meet all our needs using a supply from outside Ireland. Conscious that students are doing their leaving certificate examinations at the moment, I believe there are plenty doing those examinations who want to enter medicine or nursing but who are constrained by the number of places. On the other side, however, we have endless demand that we cannot meet for the professionals in question. Therefore, there seems to be a policy mismatch, of which we are very acutely aware, that we need to address.