Jim Daly to extend Skype clinics in rural coastal constituency

The first minister to introduce Skype clinics, in a rural coastal constituency, is considering expanding the service. With a demand for constituent clinics quadrupling since Jim Daly became a minister in the Department of Health last June, he began hosting Skype clinics from his Dublin office.

The minister of state for mental health and older people serves a sprawling constituency extending from Minane Bridge east of Kinsale to the Beara peninsula. The out-of-hours online meetings are to be further rolled out to constituents more than 100km away from his constituency office in Bandon.

“Thanks to the popularity of the Skype clinics I began in recent weeks, I now intend to extend them to locations such as Castletownbere.