Bríd Smith (Dublin South Central, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

I am curious about a small but perhaps significant point. It has to do with how the Department deals with GPs through the IMO and not through the other organisation, which is not recognised for the purpose. While I get that, would it not be prudent in a situation like this to deal directly with every GP? The Department must have them on a database somewhere given that every certificate includes the GP's name and clinic address. In this case, would it not be a form of insurance for the Department to know it had covered everybody and everything and to be able to say all GPs were informed rather than to worry about one organisation not being able to deal with the other? There might also be GPs who are not members of either.