Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 16 February 2023
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. Kevin McCarthy:
Absolutely. If GP services are under pressure in an area, they are under pressure. There are limits to what the HSE can do to address that if it does not have additional GPs to call upon. In the 2023 budget, significant additional resources were provided to the HSE to support the reach-in of services, including additional GP hours.