Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

To what extent have we made comparisons with other jurisdictions that have similar population age profiles with a view to identifying what the obvious causes were? To what extent have any comparisons been made in respect of the primary care centres and their impact on the kind of thing to which the Minister has just referred? This relates to whether primary care centres are intercepting patients requiring procedures that can be performed at such centres, having particular regard to the very sophisticated nature, scale and size of the centres that are now being provided.

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