Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is a simple question and I ask Ms Hardiman to give a clear answer. We have publicly purchased MRI machines in hospitals. In many cases there is more than a two-year wait just for children to be given an appointment for a scan. Is it the case that parents will be able to pay for their children, as private patients, to access these machines more quickly than they would if their parents were not paying?