Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Use of Private Hospitals
Mr. Martin Varley:
I struggled to understand the reasoning behind many of the exchanges I have had with the officials. I recall at one point saying to an official that we had 600 consulting rooms that provide very valuable outpatient clinic care to patients. I said it was like cutting off one's nose to spite one's face to ignore this vital capacity that we need more than ever during a crisis. I was pleading with the officials to understand that what we were doing was not going to be optimum.
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