Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I understand that. The question I am asking is "why?". Mr. Breslin is restating what happened, which is everyone was to be treated as a public patient. For people who get Covid, that decision makes perfect sense. For all of the ongoing treatment, if insurance firms are willing to pay for private patients and maybe they do not get priority during the crisis, I am all for that. Why use public money to pay for non-Covid healthcare for private patients in private hospitals?