Charlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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335. To ask the Minister for Health if there are funds within his Department to assist a person (details supplied) who is attending college overseas in order to become a doctor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43615/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The funding of undergraduate medical education is a matter for the Department of Education and Skills.

The number of places currently funded is considered sufficient to supply the needs of the Irish health care system. With regard to the issues of recruitment and retention of graduating doctors, my Department is monitoring the implementation of the MacCraith Report recommendations, which deal with these topics.

The position is that there are no funds available, within my Department, to assist individuals acquire undergraduate medical degrees outside this State.