Seanad debates

Wednesday, 2 April 2003

Humanitarian Crisis in Iraq: Statements. - Regulatory Reform: Motion.

 

I have believed all my life that every young person in this country should be able to enter any profession for which he or she has the intellectual capacity. There should be no quantitative restrictions on the entry to any profession. That is the single best and simplest way of dealing with some of the restrictive practices which appear to characterise some of our more eminent professions. That is the first aspect. Are we going to take the responsibility, which will be expensive for the State, of ensuring that there are enough places for every young person in the country who wants to study medicine, veterinary science, dentistry or law? There are enough places for anybody who wants to do engineering, my own profession. There are probably not enough for those who want to do architecture.

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