Dr. Niamh Humphries:

Ireland probably has a rural remote retention problem but we have never really spoken about it in those terms. If you look at countries such as Australia and Canada, they talk a great deal about the challenges of getting people to work in rural and remote areas. Ireland is starting to have a problem with that in terms of GPs and hospital doctors and these two issues are connected. There is very much a need to look at how we can retain and attract doctors to rural and remote places, as well as how to retain and attract them to Ireland generally.