Mr. Jim Breslin:

It is not legally dubious to levy a charge on a private patient in a public hospital who does not have a single room. All of the advice we have received, which is based on the 2014 Act, upholds that the Act made that change and we can follow it through. The rationale for that is that although some cost attaches to the room in which a private patient is treated in a public hospital, the majority of the cost is accounted for by treatment, staff input and technology. That is the philosophy behind that policy.