Mattie McGrath (Tipperary South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Yes, there is. She said they were in negotiations, yet the Government is not negotiating with the new association which has half the members. In Tipperary, where are the patients going to go when there are no doctors to take them? Two GPs have signed up in south Tipperary and it is bullying of the highest order of a profession that is under siege by the Government. The waiting lists in accident and emergency departments are flooding out their practices. I ask the Tánaiste to go back to the drawing board.

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