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

Photo of Kate O'ConnellKate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I know. This was all decided in 2008 and prioritised in 2012. We have never defined what a primary care centre is or what constitutes a primary care team or what elements are in it. My understanding is that we have not Sláintecare-proofed, so to speak, any of this yet. I read somewhere last night - I think another member mentioned this - that there is not necessarily a GP everywhere. I cannot really understand how a primary care centre would be run without a GP. What happens in primary care centres where there are no GPs? I am not being smart, but what do they do?

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