Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will let me colleagues in in a moment. It is primarily poor people who are being impacted, although I am not saying that people from other backgrounds cannot get doctors. We are training people at considerable cost, but they are going to more developed and wealthier countries while we are taking doctors from poorer and less developed countries. There is something wrong with this. We need to consider the overall system. The best way of addressing the first point of contact issue is to have prevention rather than cure, which is the medical model in Ireland. That is a larger discussion, though.

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