Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 9 February 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Chapter 12 - Financial Impact of Cyber Security Attack

9:30 am

Mr. Robert Watt:

We have increased the number of training places from 120 five years ago to 250 or 260. Every year, new GPs are trained and are in a position to enter practice. As the Deputy knows, people are leaving, with older cohorts leaving the profession. The number of GPs and the number of people trained is increasing. We are doing everything we can to put more training places for medical graduates in place for the future. Last week, the Minister spoke about the need to increase the number of places. We increased the number of places for EU graduates by 60 last year. We are hoping to increase it by 120 this year. We are looking at all possible options. Those are longer term impacts because it takes five or six years for people to do their training. In the short run, we have increased the number of GPs that are on the-----

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