Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 2 June 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Use of Private Hospitals (Resumed)

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will move on to the issue of using the facilities for the next four weeks. We had an example in Cork where, more than 12 months ago, we had a particular problem on access to gynaecological services. We had more than 4,500 people on a waiting list, and a lot of these were day care procedures.

Have we identified any list at this stage with regard to particular areas where we can use the private hospital facilities over the next four weeks and get the maximum use of it? Is there a plan in place for the next four weeks for dealing with that?

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