Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 December 2019

Public Accounts Committee

2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 15 - Development of Primary Care Centres

9:00 am

Mr. Jim Curran:

A primary care mapping exercise has been done to ensure all of the country will be covered by primary care. As part of the 2012 prioritisation exercise that was mentioned earlier, we identified priority projects in the context of the service requirements, the accommodation available and the deprivation index. That exercise gave us an initial priority list for primary care delivery. It can be seen from the priority list that there is a focus on areas of deprivation with poor facilities and on areas of increasing population without any existing facilities for the delivery of primary care. Such areas tend to be around cities and towns. It is probably timely to review the priority list now in the context of what was referred to earlier as the recommendation report. That would allow us to see where we should refocus our efforts.

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