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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I am not denying that I am just saying that sometimes-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: -----there seems to be a mismatch. One of the things that is being proposed is increasing the number of training places. What does it take to do that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: What needs to happen for that increase?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Just to get down to the root of that, what needs to happen to increase the number of hospital posts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Why is that the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: What does it take to create those properly structured posts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Is there resistance to that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Is that a resources issue-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: -----or is it an organisational issue?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Where do the resources need to be put? What is the resource demand in that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Such as more staff?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: So is that a catch-22?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Is it because there are a high level of vacancies at consultant level?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: Okay. The new contract, hopefully-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: -----will help the situation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I want to raise one other issue and that is the weakness of the out-of-hours cover that is being provided. It seems to be more designed to comply with an outdated contract rather than actually providing alternative pathways for people to the emergency departments, EDs. A parent with a young child has very few options in terms of where they can access care out of hours. Is there potential...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: It can suit some.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: When Dr. Quinlan says employed in SouthDoc, who are they employed by?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: That is somewhat different from what I am talking about-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Recruitment, Retention and Manpower Planning Issues: Irish College of General Practitioners (14 Dec 2022)

Róisín Shortall: -----where they could be employed.