Michael Ring (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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Question 210: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the way in which funding for an additional 20 new general practitioner training posts will be spent in 2006 when a recent advertisement for such training posts included only two extra places than 2005; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3079/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The Health Service Executive's Vote for 2006 includes an additional €4 million to allow a further increase of 22 in the number of general practitioner training places. This represents a significant commitment to responding to future general practitioner manpower needs, and is the second of three phased increases intended to bring the number of training places nationally to 150.

The HSE has advised me that it is committed to achieving the required expansion of general practitioner training places and is working in collaboration with the Irish College of General Practitioners to achieve the targeted increase in 2006.