Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy.

We touched on this question earlier. The Minister for Health and I are doing a scanning exercise to see how we can radically increase the size of the health service from an education point of view. We updated the Cabinet committee on health on that on Monday. The Minister for Health has arrived here just on cue. I expect to be able to bring a joint proposal with the Minister for Health to Cabinet in the coming weeks to see how we can expand particularly in 2024, 2025 and beyond. There is potential to do much more and the HEA expression of interest process has indicated that. We will formally receive that report along with the veterinary one in the coming weeks.

See this speech in context