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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: When was the decision taken to remove the staff? It is not anyone's fault here.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: Should we not have been told then? The consequence would have been for us to measure-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: My question really relates to the following. We do work programme planning here every week. There are resources there that are specialised because of the work of Project Eagle. There are staff working on that. Some of those staff were removed and we were not informed. Our work programme planning has gone out of kilter because we are not aware of what staff were there to do the work in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: University College Cork.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: What year was this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: It does not have one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: You could actually. We all have to deal with-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the witnesses. I apologise for being late. Unfortunately I am on two committees that sit at the same time on Thursday mornings, so I have to jump between the Committee of Public Accounts and the Joint Committee on Health. Like Deputies O'Reilly and Kelleher, I too am a member of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare, which is devising a plan for the next ten years. Politics...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: Is it about timing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I thank for Dr. O'Shea for at least being the first person to try to answer some of my questions, because I was beginning to wonder what was the point in coming in here. However, that does not stand up to scrutiny. I know of an example - I will not give the details as it would identify the GPs in the area - in which the practices are similar, the GPs are of a similar age and the patients...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: If I get five of the ten answered I will be doing well. Those are the most important ones.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I agree. I have no issue with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: No. I accept that point and I saw that clarification. I know all the individuals involved there. I have no issue with that. There is no issue with the majority of GPs but we need to know if there are substantial differences and, if there are, why there are, and they have to be explained. If they are explained that is fine, but currently they are not explained.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: What about the other 24%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: Is there a percentage who do not work at all?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: That is useful information to know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: Fair play to Dr. Hanley; she is the first to address it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: What is the figure?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I am genuine about this. From Deputy Bernard J. Durkan's question, I understand how the figures from years ago were broken down because it was a top-line figure that did not explain anything unless it was broken down. The question I have asked is very simple and the reason I am asking is not to stick anyone to it. We need to know what GPs' expectations are with regard to staying in or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I am not that mad for many things in here. Perhaps I am just mad.