Mr. Dónal Clancy:

There is a solution here. I have referred already to a standard core set of benefits. The solution is not to incentivise the hospitals and doctors to impose additional costs on the public side without providing any additional service. There are cases of people who come in through accident and emergency departments with a burst appendix. As it stands, such people have a right under universal care to be covered but such people will end up being charged for beds for no additional service.