Dr. John Farrell:

There will be significant additional pressures. The future is not as bleak as the Deputy has set out, though. We have increased training numbers by 60% in recent years. We have a target of increasing numbers to 350 in the relatively short term. We need to reach the figure of 4,000 full-time equivalents, which will probably necessitate 6,000 doctors working in general practice. There is no doubt that, as we have seen with the under-6s-----