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:
We will revert on that. Through the winter, the GP out-of-hours service did a lot of additional sessions in the evenings, put extra GPs on and that supported this. We reckon over half of GPs, approximately 1,500, participated in running extra evening and Saturday sessions to try to avert the pressures on emergency departments. They really did stand up for us.
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