European Elections: Ireland’s exodus of young doctors • FRANCE 24 English

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1. So Ireland trains them, Australia enjoys them as doctors. I assume the State provide (almost) free education paid through normal taxes by the whole population. When the doctors leave, it’s a net loss for Ireland. The young lady interviewed said that salary is not bad in Ireland, just longer hours. Maybe it is because the young doctors don’t stay in Ireland? Obviously if the pool of doctors get smaller and smaller due to emigrant doctors, the remaining ones would have to cover for them. Sounds like a catch 22. But on a different view, if “Society” paid for your education and then you say “Effe You Society, thanks for the education, I’m leaving”, you should at least repay your debt

2. Best of luck with the cost of living down under. Two doctors will need to double their income to buy a small 2 bed house. Just crazy you believe to see it to believe it.

3. I voted for the political left.. Europa strong 💪

4. The burnout is real!

5. Doesn't Australia train enough of their own doctors?

6. 1:23 Pretty sure the number is much higher, c'mon🤦‍♂️😁

7. Funny how when its white ppl emigrating in large numbers you guys in the comments dont make it all about shifting demographics or loosing a country’s culture. If other ppl were allowed paths to emigrate like this it resolve alot of issues of irregular migration

8. This is what happened in the UK. Now we take doctors from poor countries to help our needs.

9. Our Government are a f**king JOKE.

10. What about all the doctors, engineers, and scientists coming in from Afghanistan, Africa, and the Middle East who are coming in by the boatload from Calais and then crossing into Ireland to replace Irish doctors like her? 😅

11. I’m someone who has a lot of friends who are newly trained doctors. They go to Australia for a year or 2 and then majority come back. It’s for the great pay and better hours. However Australia isn’t good for progressing your career. It’s encouraged to go out there and work a year or 2 also.

12. This problem exists but the new generation run rather than fight. Weak and self serving. They don't know how to fight for change or couldnt be bothered. I.hope they don't come back, good riddens.

13. Like france the irish government is importing votes instead, as they no irish wont vote for the corrupt criminals

14. Our traitorous criminal governments are responsible for this along with the Rxpe of medical resource in India and Philippines to back fill gaps with cheaper medical staff from these nations.

15. And nurses teachers construction workers u name it

16. Banana Republic 😅don't blame them 😅

17. Foreign doctors would be well advised to insist on housing provision before agreeing to come to Ireland. Or, at least research the housing situation here before you come.

18. If a student in Ireland is aspiring to be a doctor or a nurse, he/she will require a certain amount of points in the leaving certificate to get into a university to do the degree or to start the training in a hospital.
    If they don’t have enough points and still want to pursue one of these careers, they will go over to England for example and do their degree/training there and return to Ireland when qualified to find work and be accepted….

    Now all the students graduating in Ireland are leaving Ireland for better conditions and being replaced by foreign qualified doctors and nurses, who in a lot of cases would not have had enough points to be accepted into an Irish university or hospital to do a degree or training in the first place….How does any of this, make any sense and what is the government going to do about it?

19. The Housing Crisis is the real issue.

20. Stupid/ignorant govt is more concerned with undocumented free loaders than improving the working conditions of the local patriotic workforce.

21. No worries – scores of high grade medical specialists – from North Africa – have taken up residence in Ireland 🤠 !

22. We just have to eat our 10 a day

23. When have an agency like the HSE as toxic as a nuclear dump, if youre normal you cannot tolerate it. Thats why they leave.

24. They could always recruit experienced doctors and teachers from all those currently accommodated in tents along the Grand Canal. Mary-Loon McDonald has assured us that most of these young men are highly trained health professionals and university STEM lecturers.

25. Bad as it might be we still have diversity on the canal banks and women driving buses at three in the morning. So it's not all bad.

26. It’s okay, we’re being sent young male doctors from countries like Algeria, Afghanistan and various other Muslim countries. They’re coming on boats and they’re sleeping in tents on the street so they’re not too worried about the cost of living in the city.

27. Would you not stay Kate and fight for betterworking conditions instead of skipping off to Australia?!

28. It's because the jobs are there but are being given to nursing agencies to outsource the work.

29. Great to see my hard earned taxes, have a few years down under. Enjoy yerself.

30. What do you expect when the country is turning into a third world dump. Replaced with unskilled migration whilst Australia poaches only skilled migrants. This is why UK, Ireland, Sweden and Germany etc are collapsing.

31. There needs to a way to ensure they pay back the cost of their training when they go, otherwise they're just freeloading off the Irish tax payer