Ms Deborah Kelleher:

No, there is not an issue with clinical placements. Rather, there is an issue with receiving the funding for the clinical tutors. We sought six additional clinical tutor posts, for which we have been refused funding. Trinity cannot increase the number of students. This involves 20 additional students. We are training 30 radiation therapists in undergraduate programmes and 12 in postgraduate programmes. Cancer rates have grown exponentially in the past 20 years.