Mr. Val Moran:

It is not an easy situation. The co-ops grew up organically in each area, so they all have different systems. What would be best would be to review the situation, including all the stakeholders and individual co-ops, and look at the GPs who are working in the co-ops and funding them for red-eye shifts and the HSE. Everybody must look at this to ensure a better system is put in place for all the GPs working in the system. That would I hope be less onerous both in terms of the number of shifts and the financial cost to the individual GP. There is no easy solution to that. All the stakeholders must come around the table to come up with a solution everybody would agree is pragmatic. That would require a review, in consultation with all the different co-ops and the GPs working in them.