General Practitioner Services
Dail Éireann — 2021-10-19
============================================================

Róisín Shortall (SD), Dublin North-West

The Minister will be aware that over recent years there has been a growing shortage of GPs, to the point where it can only be described as a crisis. The Irish College of General Practitioners, ICGP, has found that 700 GPs will retire in the next five years. An ICGP poll this month shows that 60% of approximately 900 GPs surveyed were full to capacity or beyond. What precise steps is the Minister taking to address this issue to ensure that we have adequate levels of staff in primary care?

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2021-10-19/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:49:43+00:00
Sitting date: 2021-10-19