Dr. Ronan Fawsitt:

Deputy Collins rightly referred to the 28% of older GPs who are due to retire. That is a worry and we must address it. The Irish College of General Practitioners is in a position where, with correct funding, it could take on more training to get us over this bump. We need our specialist generalist, who is the GP, in the community to mind patients. It is about care and continuous care. We must bite the bullet on that. We must keep our graduates here and if we do not have enough, we must train more for the time being. We must make Ireland attractive for our graduates. We must make it connected and join up the dots in health care. In our process we get 25 people to come into a room every month. It is no problem. They want to be there because they want to be involved in how we move forward.