Dr. Colm Henry:

It is absolutely worthy of doing in parallel. In our discussions to date with the GP representative bodies, the Irish College of General Practitioners, ICGP, and the Irish Medical Organisation, IMO, the priority they have identified for general practice has been in supporting existing practices and the additional personnel following the O'Dowd report which identified the poor supports which GP practices have throughout the country, and clearly our attempts at increasing the trainees to 285 - up to 350 in a few years - per year and bringing in non-EU GPs.