John Perry (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

With regard to the participation of other outreach services, the aim of the primary centres is to take patients away from hospital care and the emergency departments. Does the HSE intend them to be places where people can come to get an ECG and so forth, a permanent medical facility so people would not have to go to the accident and emergency department for a minor cut and the like? Will these primary centres be a first stop before referral to an emergency unit, where they might be hours waiting for attention?