General Practitioner Services
Dail Éireann — 2025-03-06
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David Cullinane (SF), Waterford

I echo the points made by my colleague. I visited with him a GP centre in Tallow, County Waterford. It has an application in for funding because the practice is too small and the space in the centre is not fit for purpose. We could see that ourselves when we visited. There is a need to progress funding for it. The same is true of the Cappoquin health centre. I got a phone call from the lead GP there last week. It was accepted as a GP training surgery. It has three young GPs. They have an application for funding in and they are telling me that application is not progressing as quickly as possible. These are two GP surgeries in rural towns with multiple GPs working from them contacting us as public representatives and asking us to intervene because they believe their funding applications are not progressing as quickly as possible. Will the Minister look at both of those and make sure they are expedited as much as possible?

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Sitting date: 2025-03-06