Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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151. To ask the Minister for Health when it was decided to terminate payments, under the Rural Practice Allowance, for general practitioner practices, when the principal retires, and is replaced by another doctor; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7559/15]

Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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Where a General Practitioner (GP), who holds a General Medical Services (GMS) contract, lives and practices in a centre with a population of less than 500 and where there is not a town with a population of 1,500 or more within a 4.83 km (3 mile) radius of that centre, the GP is entitled to a Rural Practice Allowance.

Issues relating to the filling of vacant GMS panels are a matter for the HSE; therefore, I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy on this matter. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.