Marie Louise O'Donnell (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I would just like to know how much more funding they actually need. Could we have an in-depth analysis of that and could we have proper means testing? How come a report like this did not touch on it and how did we only come up with three solutions, two of which were already there?

Some 90 young doctors have just qualified from NUIG and they are all going to Australia. The taxpayer has spent €17,000 per year for medicine, regardless of what they paid in secondary and primary education. I am not against that, but these young doctors are going to go to Australia, where they will do half the work for twice the pay. There is something radically wrong when that is happening and at the same time we are bringing in all sorts of people who were educated outside Ireland.

How come we have no in-depth analysis so that if one does not have the money, one gets the education free and if one can pay, one pays? What is wrong with us that we cannot do an in-depth analysis of third level education on those grounds?