Construction of dental school in Cork must be a 'national priority'

Irish Dental Association has called for the €20m funding crisis in Ireland's dental schools to be addressed

The construction of a new dental school in Cork must become a national priority, the Government has been told, amid warnings of a €20m funding crisis in Ireland's dental schools.

The construction of a new dental school in Cork must become a national priority, the Government has been told, amid warnings of a €20m funding crisis in Ireland's dental schools.

The Irish Dental Association called for the core funding crisis to be addressed, and for a cap to be imposed on the number of foreign students who can study dentistry here, as figures show that almost half of the total student intake at the country’s two dental schools — UCC and Trinity — was from outside the EU or European Economic Area (EEA).