Jim O'Callaghan (Dublin Bay South, Fianna Fail)
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I welcome the fact we will have more university spaces for medicine students. That is a requirement for our society as our population grows and demands for medicine increase. We are seeing a phenomenon whereby many students who qualify as doctors leave the country quite quickly afterwards, many for a short period but some permanently. Can anything be done by the State to make it more attractive for medicine graduates to remain here, rather than taking the draconian step of imposing specific legal requirements on them to stay?