John McGuinness (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Some consultants have complained to members of the committee that in the context of that new arrangement, where private hospitals were taken in charge by the HSE, the output was very low because there was no working arrangement. Instead of covering a number of patients, as with the figures Mr. Varley has just given us, they were not able to do that number. As a result, there was little value for money.