James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Senator asked when free GP care will be introduced. It will be introduced in this quarter, in this Dáil session, as promised. I accept it is a bit late, but I have explained before it is an extremely complex area. It is much more complex than I ever understood and the Attorney General is working with this to move from a system that is eligibility-based on means to a system that is based on disease entities. The work is nearly done and we hope to move on it shortly. We will introduce that legislation.