David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will leave Dr. Johnston to come in on population-based budgeting, which is going to be part of the regional health areas and is important.

I have a quick query on free GP care, which obviously needs to happen. However, do our guests agree we must get the foundations right? This would mean ensuring we are training more GPs, looking at a new contract for them and also examining directly-hired GPs, which is something I am supportive of. Have our guests given this some consideration? GPs tell me if we go too quickly on this and the capacity is not there, we will end up with longer wait times. How important is it we put that infrastructure in place?