Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 June 2020
Special Committee on Covid-19 Response
Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed)
Mr. Liam Woods:
I have not been party to any dialogue about the purchase of private hospitals. The fastest way for us to respond to the pandemic was to get access to use these hospitals, which was done through a cost-based arrangement, as was previously discussed. The notion of acquiring private hospitals was not part of our early discussions because time was not our friend in putting arrangements in place at the end of March.
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