Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. Damien McCallion:
An important point to make on why the system has grown organically is that the services went in partly to support GPs. It goes back to a question Deputy Catherine Murphy asked earlier. Owing to the challenges in retaining GPs, the old rotas, under which a GP was on call for 24 hours a day for seven days, were not sustainable.
No comments