About three years ago the Medical Council decided that some posts around the country were, on inspection, not worthy of being called training posts. It did not recommend that non-EU doctors who had only secured temporary registration should take them. In its collective wisdom, the Government brought forward the Bill mentioned to allow the service experience of the doctors concerned to be taken into account in order that they could secure permanent registration after four years satisfactory service. This was quite reasonable in view of the fact that many of the people concerned were highly experienced in their own countries and were simply waiting to take examinations in Ireland. We were relying on them to take up posts which were not being sought by our own graduates and were not considered suitable as training posts. We badly needed to have people in position in order that there would be a service commitment in what were mostly rural hospitals. I am sure the Minister of State noticed there was trouble recently in Wexford hospital because this legislation had not been implemented.