Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed)
Mr. Jim Breslin:
If the Deputy would give me a moment to answer, we did not have any other beds. We had all of the public beds that we needed. There were no other beds on the island that we could get access to, so getting it on a cost-only basis was the most economic thing for us to do. If there were cheaper beds out there, we could have got them, but there were not. These were the only beds that were available to us and we did it on a cost-only basis.
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