Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed)
Mr. Jim Breslin:
I was trying to go on to say that was the rationale of the arrangement I have called plan A, which was that of a single tier. Everybody in the situation of a pandemic would be treated based on clinical need and there would not be two streams of income going into the private hospitals, one from the public purse and one from private sources. The plan has changed and the Government on Friday opened up the possibility of putting an arrangement in place where we would only pay for public patients.
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