Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am sorry I missed the witnesses' presentation, which is why I did not contribute before now because I was not going to make comment on a conversation I did not hear. On GPs coming out of colleges with huge debts of €120,000 or so, how do we keep those individuals in the country? Perhaps the committee needs to look at a strategy, from the point of view of salary, to deal with that problem. If they spend ten or 15 years practising in communities, perhaps that would entice them to stay. It would not be a huge burden.