Written answers
Tuesday, 5 December 2006
Department of Health and Children
Medical Staff
11:00 pm
Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 325: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of doctors, nurses, surgeons and physicians who qualified here in each of the past eight years to date; the number who have come here from abroad in the same period; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41688/06]
Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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With regard to the number of doctors, surgeons and physicians who have qualified in Ireland, my colleague the Minister for Education and Science has provided me with the most up-to-date full year figures of numbers of persons who have qualified with a medical degree:
| 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| 519 | 517 | 509 | 546 | 552 | 568 | 608 | 635 |
The Medical Council has provided me with the following numbers of doctors registered in Ireland from abroad:
| 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | |
| EU | 56 | 80 | 117 | 105 | 130 | 107 | 170 | 239 |
| Non EU | 109 | 52 | 128 | 331 | 573 | 442 | 423 | 649 |
| Total | 165 | 132 | 245 | 436 | 703 | 549 | 593 | 888 |
An Bord Altranais has provided me with the following numbers, available from 2000, of nurses from Ireland and abroad who have registered with the Board:
| 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005* | 2006 | |
| Ireland | 935 | 1,466 | 1,219 | 1,333 | 1,459 | 155 | 1,228 |
| EU | 1,355 | 1,235 | 1,045 | 846 | 634 | 774 | 684 |
| Non EU | 635 | 2,290 | 1,720 | 737 | 1,033 | 2,143 | 2446 |
| *The decrease in the number of nurses registering in 2005 is due to the introduction of the four year Nursing Degree Programme in 2002. The Nursing Diploma Programme was a three year programme with the final 2001 intake graduating in 2004. The 155 nurses registered in 2005 were repeat students from the nursing diploma programme. The increase in overseas nurses was a result of a recruitment drive undertaken in 2005 to ensure there was an adequate number of nurses during this transition period. |
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