Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Workforce Planning in the Irish Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Great. I will put two together. The witnesses said we need to invest more in GP support and capacity. I fully agree. Could they give us the top one, two or three things that they would do?

I am really concerned by the issue they raised of insufficient specialist training posts. If that is the case, we are setting ourselves up to fail. It seems such a glaringly obvious thing to not get wrong. Why have we got that wrong?