Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 June 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed)

Mr. Jim Breslin:

On the first question regarding private patients, I go back to where we started from, which is that all patients were considered public patients. That is the legal position. Every person in the country is entitled to be first and foremost a public patient. They get to opt out of that and waive their entitlement if they wish to but all people, including those with health insurance, are entitled to be public patients. The-----

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