Ossian Smyth (Dún Laoghaire, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

To exit from this stage where we have this full lease of all the private hospitals, and presumably we are going to return to using a smaller portion of the hospitals and taking them on an as-needed basis, a procedural basis or a National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF, style approach to usage, how is the HSE going to get from one of those to the other? Does the HSE have an exit pathway or is Mr. Reid hoping to find a way, as he said earlier, to deliver Sláintecare at speed, that the conversion of consultants into public contracts is something that will last? Are those converted contracts something that are long-term or are they only for the duration of the surge?