Government urged to extend support programme for North West medical students

There are calls on the Government to expand a new initiative supporting medical students that would benefit students from Donegal and across the North West. There's said to be many young people in the region Donegal who go on to study in the North, given its close proximity to home and given the housing shortage in Dublin at the moment. At the beginning of this year, it was announced that funding would be made available for 25 additional medical places for qualifying students in Queen's from September 2024 and that as part of the arrangement, students will pay the €3,000 fee charged in the Republic, with the State covering the rest of the tuition cost. Donegal Independent TD Thomas Pringle feels that further extended to the likes of Ulster University would have far-reaching benefits: