Mr. Fintan Foy:

It is just the nature of the practice. Generally for GPs, it is more attractive to work in a larger practice with all the supports that are available. Rural general practice tends to be more single-handed and there is a need to build an infrastructure around those single-handed GPs to enable them to practice and support their patients appropriately. They need to be incentivised to work in rural Ireland, as happens in Australia and other parts of the world. As a college, we want to help and provide an educational package to ensure that we can push more GPs into rural Ireland.