Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Ceann Comhairle. Earlier this week, I highlighted a discrepancy in the HSE guidance for GP care. Its website states that if three GPs decline somebody care, they can contact the HSE and it will assign them a GP, but it appears that last month it stopped doing this. That means people who cannot access healthcare can no longer get an intervention from the HSE to provide them with GP care. Was there a change in the policy? If so, at the very least, we need to update the information, but can we re-examine the policy? It means people the State has determined are entitled to free GP care are not getting assistance to access what is a basic human right.

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