Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Quinlivan for the question. This is something I have been working on with the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Harris. There is a need and demand for additional veterinary medicine places. We are not training enough domestically to meet the demand. The Minister, Deputy Harris, has initiated a process with the Higher Education Authority around inviting and accepting applications from across the country to provide those additional places. A process is under way to assess those applications. The Higher Education Authority will then work with the Minister on the matter. He will be consulting and engaging with me and my Department with regard to rolling this out.

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