Dr. Diarmuid Quinlan:

I agree with the Deputy. I think that is also why we are looking at very substantially expanding the number of GP nurses and allied healthcare professionals. If we can bring in GP nurses to support, as they are already doing with vaccinations and chronic disease management, they have a very valuable role. If we can use phlebotomists, healthcare assistants and more practice nurses to support our work in general practice, that will create additional capacity within the existing GP workforce but, fundamentally, we have a major shortage of all primary healthcare staff currently.