Eamonn Maloney (Dublin South West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister for the more optimistic conclusion of his contribution than is indicated in the study. One of the difficulties is that historically there has been a transfer of people who qualify in medicine in Ireland. It is an historic problem and is not terribly new. I know from my previsions involvement with a committee in my local hospital in Tallaght that different medics have different views on why people leave the jurisdiction. Some say it is because of remuneration, while others say they go to certain places such as America and Australia. One also meets people, as I did in my local hospital, who came back after a very short period of time and are working in the Irish medical system, which is encouraging.

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