Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I want to add my weight and call on the Government to ensure people in places like Milltown can have a GP service. To give the Taoiseach an idea of the area, there are 8,000 people in that catchment area and Milltown is the heart of mid-Kerry. If we cannot keep a GP in Milltown, there is no hope that outlying places around the coast of Kerry will have a GP of their own. The Government’s policies are wrong. It is not being supportive of GPs who want to operate a practice in these kinds of areas. In Rathmore, where we have ended up with half of a GP service, if people get sick, they have to travel all the way to Millstreet. That is not acceptable. If only half a service is being provided, it means the Government is saying to people they can only get sick when the GP has a clinic.

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