Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 December 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Dr. Farrell has made that point several times and we can support it, but it strikes me that we are putting the cart before the horse. All of this should have been done first. We should have been considering putting all of these additional capacity elements into the system. We could then have started looking at expanding services. Mr. Foy or Dr. Quinlan stated that we probably needed 120 additional GPs - I imagine those would be whole-time equivalents - to meet the demand that was coming in April. Is it possible to get that number by April?
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