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ICGP Oireachtas Presentations

The College regularly produces detailed submissions on health-related policy for Oireachtas sub-committees and Task Force groups.

College representatives attend Oireachtas Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community

Irish College of General Practitioners calls for more resources to support travellers' health services » read more

Irish College of General Practitioners representatives attend Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health to discuss the preparation of clinical guidelines in light of the impending introduction of abortion services in Ireland

Three representatives - Dr John O'Brien (President), Dr Mary Favier (Vice-President) and Dr Tony Cox (Medical Director) - attended the session of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health today (Wed. September 19th 2018) to discuss the clinical guidelines being prepared in light of the impending introduction of abortion services in Ireland. » read more

ICGP attends Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health on Prescribing Trends Monitoring

On Wednesday 21 March 2018, ICGP representatives Dr Mark Murphy, Chair of Communications, and Dr John O'Brien, Vice President, attended the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health on Prescribing Trends Monitoring. » read more

ICGP address to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Mental Health

The crisis in mental health services in Ireland has become a crisis in general practice according to the Irish College of General Practice (ICGP), which presented a detailed submission to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Mental Health in relation to GP-led primary care expansion on Thursday 14 December 2017. » read more

ICGP attends Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future of Mental Healthcare

On Wednesday 7 February, ICGP representatives attended the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Future of Mental Healthcare to discuss medication and talk therapy. » read more

ICGP address to Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health on the expansion of primary care

On Wednesday 29 November 2017, two representatives of the ICGP, Dr Brendan O'Shea, Director of the Post Graduate Research Centre, and Dr Mark Murphy, Chair of Communications, attended the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health in relation to 'Primary Care Expansion' as recommended in the Sláintecare Report produced by the then Committee on the Future of Healthcare. » read more

ICGP address to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

The Irish College of General Practitioners today (Thursday 12 October 2017) presented its submission to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution. » read more

Submissions Archive

Click here for a list of titles of archived ICGP Oireachtas submissions » read more