Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Committee on Disability Matters
Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
The primary care numbers have grown every year, including during the moratorium. To be fair to workers in primary care, and Deputy Quaide raised this issue earlier, we also count enhanced community care in the primary care area, which is a specialised service for people with chronic disease and older people. This has depleted the numbers we would traditionally have had in the local health centre, which we call primary care. This has depleted the numbers, so, to be clear, they are under pressure.
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