Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I thank for Dr. O'Shea for at least being the first person to try to answer some of my questions, because I was beginning to wonder what was the point in coming in here. However, that does not stand up to scrutiny. I know of an example - I will not give the details as it would identify the GPs in the area - in which the practices are similar, the GPs are of a similar age and the patients who attend them have a similar demographic profile but yet one refers substantially more into a place in Limerick, a video of which the witnesses would have seen when 12 ambulance were pulled up outside it at one stage. Perhaps it was just a bad day but I am being told by ambulance personnel that this is a frequent occurrence. Dr. O'Shea explained what potentially could be happening but that management information, which is what I consider it to be, on those statistics needs to be churned and that needs to be examined or, dare I say it, investigated.

I asked a number of questions which have not been answered. They relate to what a GP practising in Tipperary would earn compared with a GP practising in Dublin 14 or Dublin 16. I referred to GP co-operatives, bringing in GPs from outside and management information, which I-----