PQ 123
116 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to introduce legislation to remove from the Irish Medical Council its power to prescribe the standards of education and training for specialist medical qualifications; if she proposes in this or some other way to reduce the current lengthy training process for higher and specialist medical qualifications; if she proposes that practitioners applying for the anticipated 2,000 new posts required to provide a consultant delivered rather than a consultant led hospital service will need to have completed the current requirements for recognised higher specialist training before applying for these positions; if not, the location where the applicants for those posts are expected to come from; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2828/08]
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116 Deputy Ruairí Quinn asked the Minister for Health and Children if she proposes to introduce legislation to remove from the Irish Medical Council its power to prescribe the standards of education and training for specialist medical qualifications; if she proposes in this or some other way to reduce the current lengthy training process for higher and specialist medical qualifications; if she proposes that practitioners applying for the anticipated 2,000 new posts required to provide a consultant delivered rather than a consultant led hospital service will need to have completed the current requirements for recognised higher specialist training before applying for these positions; if not, the location where the applicants for those posts are expected to come from; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2828/08]
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