Brian Mooney
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1,158 appearances
15 recordings
3 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 13 Sep
Brian Mooney’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Is the last person through the door.
So if you've got ten more people through the door, sure the the points are dropping.
So effectively you you've got a couple of things going on, Pat.
You have fifty five thousand people whose grades say at H one were down by on average two percent this year.
So that that's an easing of the of you know what we had pre COVID.
If you look at COVID, I j just to give you a an insight, pre pre
We COVID, a thousand people, twel a thousand to twelve hundred a year were getting over six hundred.
Since COVID it's been about three and a half thousand.
And about two hundred and fifty people were on the six two five before COVID.
It's been about a thousand to twelve hundred during the enhancement period.
So as we begin to ease that, that should have an effect on points.
If the minister puts in extra places, that should have an effect on points going down.
But you've got six thousand extra kids in the system.
You know, five thousand of them applying to the CAO.
That's pushing it in the opposite direction.
Well over a period of time it's quite significant.
If you go back to FOTRL, the FOTRL report on medical education, at that stage it was three hundred and eighteen places in the entire system for Irish and EU candidates.
We're now over nine hundred, including the you know and then we have the postgrad degrees etcetera that that you can get through at you know once you have an undergraduate degree.
So we are really significantly investing uh, you know, in the last number of years and these were the expensive places.
These were the ones
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