Mary Wallace
Question:98 Miss M. Wallace asked the Minister for Health the way in which a person (details supplied) in County Meath could be advised by the Mater Hospital, Dublin 7, that she would not be issued with an application form in view of the fact that she had not reached the education requirements of honours biology and an honour in two other subjects when she was advised by Blanchards-town Hospital, County Dublin, that honours biology was not an entry requirement and that her application could be considered at the next intake but unfortunately the next intake was not until April 1997 and could be accepted by Middlesex University Hospital, England for a first class place; the reason requirements of hospitals like the Mater Hospital are so high in view of the fact that nursing is a caring profession; the way in which this person could be considered by Middlesex University Hospital, England to warrant a first class place in nursing and be advised by an Irish hospital that her lack of an honour in biology meant that she did not merit the issuing of an application form for completion; his views on the fact that a person could be refused an application form for nursing in her own country and thereby forced to emigrate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5535/96]