Dr. Edel McGinnity:

We tend to have very large lists and because of the underpayments, a doctor needs more patients to be viable, which means they will have less time with them. There are many patients in north-west Dublin who cannot get a GP at all. They may have a GP in another part of the city where they have lived previously but their care is terrible because they cannot get to that GP and they only go when they are really stuck. There are more patients per GP list - not twice as many in the sense that a doctor just could not function with that many but patients do not have the GPs and must go all over the place to find their GP.