The HSE is being told it needs to do more to ensure that general practice survives in rural Ireland.
Officials are planning to expand the number of doctors who can avail of a rural practice support, but are being told that's not enough.
The HSE is reportedly going to offer payments of around 8,000 euro to more doctors, in a bid to ease the shortage of family doctors.
It will be easier for more medics to draw down part of a rural practice allowance, as part of moves to ensure that doctors don't just try to set up in urban areas, or outside of Ireland.
However Kilmihil-based Dr. Michel Harty says it simply isn't enough.
A number of Clare's rural communities have lost their doctors in the past two decades, including Feakle last year and also the likes of Quin and Doonbeg.
Dr. Harty believes the HSE needs to do much more to make Irish graduates want to stay here.
At present, there are 19 communities nationwide without a doctor, including Kildysart.
The area has been covered by a locum doctor for sometime, but fears that the post there won't be filled have been eased.
Kildysart community activist and former Councillor Oliver Garry is optimistic that a doctor has been found.