Vol. 515 No. 2
160 Ms McManus asked the Minister for Health and Children the action, if any, he will take to address the shortage of doctors resulting from the changed requirements following the Medical Council's revised requirements for practice by foreign doctors here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5643/00]
The medical staffing of hospitals is currently being addressed by the Medical Manpower Forum. With particular regard to non-consultant hospital doctors, the forum is seeking to redress the imbalance between career posts and training posts, the need to improve postgraduate medical training to keep more Irish medical graduates in this country, and the need to look at the position of women in medicine in Ireland with a view to redressing the number who leave medicine. The Medical Manpower Forum is due to publish its first report shortly.
