Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

As I understand, private hospitals are lying idle while patients' appointments have been put on hold. In addition to that, patients were advised to stay at home which meant cancer patients missed treatments while oncologists' waiting lists grew longer. Several of my constituents told me that their appointments had been cancelled with no idea of when they are likely to be rescheduled. Now that the number of deaths from Covid has, thankfully, fallen significantly, as well as a dramatic fall in new Covid cases being recorded, will the private hospitals have to wait until the end of June before they start seeing patients again?