Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion

Photo of Stephen DonnellyStephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Sure.

Coming back to the core principle, underlying the Sláintecare report - I think Dr. de Buitléir mentioned it today and it is in the report - is a belief that removing private patients from public hospitals will lead to an increase in capacity for public patients. On the basis that most of the private patients are still going to come into the public hospital, that assumption is probably untrue.

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