Dr. Conor Keegan:

As the Deputy said, this is anecdotal so in order to understand the extent of that we must come back to my point about the need to have data on the activity in private and public hospitals in comparison to each other. Without that, we cannot really understand if something is happening in the private hospital system that is then becoming a burden or a cost in the public system. It is only anecdotal at the moment. To flesh that out and really get an understanding of the relationships between the private system and the public system, we need better data collection from the system as a whole. That is an important point.