Dr. Emmet Kerin:

On Deputy Durkan's question regarding where it all went wrong in terms of primary care centres, what happened is an excellent example of us all working independently and in silos in the context of a strategy for the development of primary care centres, and GPs not being brought along with that process. When I established my practice in 2012, I was eager and keen in terms of my engagement with the primary care teams but I quickly found myself at 8 a.m. meetings that went on to 9.30 a.m. or 10 a.m. because of a lack of leadership and decision-making and meanwhile my patients were waiting for me. I was not resourced to be at those meetings.