Primary Care Centres
Dail Éireann — 2026-03-05
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Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG), Dún Laoghaire

The Deputy is right; we have a challenge in this regard. On the one hand, we cannot tell private GP practices where they should locate. That is a matter for them to determine. At the same time, we want to ensure they locate in areas of need, such as the Deputy’s constituency. He has suggested looking at some measures to create different incentives for GPs to either join a practice or physically extend a practice and how the State could offer the best support to them to do that. This is something the Deputy has mentioned to me before. Perhaps we might follow that up to see how we could consider that to create additional incentives for GPs to set up or expand practices in specified areas.

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Sitting date: 2026-03-05