Graduate medical debt
Senator van Turnhout formally seconds a debate on the heavy debt burden facing graduate-entry medical students.
I support Senator Marie-LouiseO'Donnell. I also attended a briefing by the graduate entry medical students. The debt burden among them is very high and it has been increasing. They have made a very compelling case for relief on repayment of loan products used to finance their graduate entry to medicine. We should be doing everything we can to encourage them to remain here in Ireland when in fact we are encouraging them to leave. I formally second the amendment to the Order of Business proposed by Senator Marie-Louise O'Donnell.