Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank the CAWT representatives for the presentation and for all the good work they are doing. My first question is, when will the programme be approved by the EU Commissioner? When are they expecting that and how time-sensitive is it? Are there risks if it is not approved sooner rather than later? How successful was the recent health and well-being programme, which set out to train the 40 local community health facilitators to deliver the healthy lifestyle programmes to the residents of their communities? What areas were those delivered in and how does CAWT evaluate them?

One of the biggest challenges we have in the west of Ireland and in rural Ireland is the shortage of GPs. How is that impacting on what CAWT is trying to do? What do the representatives see as the solutions to those? I am not sure if the organisation is involved in the associate physician developments. Maybe the representatives could speak to that as well. I have other questions but I want to give them time to answer.