John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I spent many years as a councillor, as the Chair will be aware given we share the same constituency. I took us a lot of time to get primary care centres over the line. That was not the fault of the HSC. The goodwill was always there but some fell at the last hurdle. Anyway, we opened a tremendous primary care centre in Ballyboden. I had occasion to avail of the services there recently as part of the cardio rehabilitation. It is a fantastic facility. One of the small things is that parking is free. The cardio rehabilitation used to be in a hospital setting and it has now moved out into the community. Aside from the stress, there was the difficulty of looking for a car parking space in Tallaght Hospital. I do not highlight that specifically in respect of myself, but many people attending commented on that.

Mr. Gloster may not know the specific answer to this question. There was a process to bring GPs into that centre and I think there were two GPs. If I am correct, those two GPs were located in the existing community. In what way has the primary care added GP capacity? I do not know whether the GP practices are being replaced. Two GPs were taken from the community and put into primary care centre. There was no additional-----