Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is certainly shambolic from the point of view that four years have passed since the Government started to roll out this programme, but less than half of the GPs in the country are getting involved in it and just half of the people of this country will have access to GP services in the next few weeks and months. There is huge uncertainty out there. Could we have some clarity? Will the Minister for Health and his colleagues re-engage with the doctors who are not signing these contracts? Will they engage with the National Association of General Practitioners, which represents many of the GPs who are not taking up these contracts? Will they give the parents of children under the age of six an assurance that this service will be available to them as stated by the end of next month?

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