Ms Louise McGirr:

As GP care is a primary care service, we fund it through the GMS and the GP cards. It is part of the overall population need. We have significant portion of our budget that makes GP and GP out-of-hours payments through the PCRS, which we spoke about earlier, and directly from the out-of-hours. All that gets taken into account in terms of the size and scale of the budget. We do not have HSE GPs. They are direct employees.