Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 11 May 2023

Public Accounts Committee

Appropriation Accounts 2021
Financial Statements 2021: HSE
Special Report No. 114 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: Emergency Procurement of Ventilators by the HSE
Vote 38 - Health

9:30 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I am not sure whether specific financial supports are targeted at the Ukraine piece in regard to GP care. There are certainly additional financial supports targeted at a number of support mechanisms throughout the local authorities and so on. Overall, however, the issues of eligibility and capitation support to GPs are being negotiated currently with the Irish Medical Organisation, IMO. These negotiations are quite sensitive but are at a very advanced stage. That is in part dealing with the eligibility factor of the number of people who have entitlement to GP visit cards.