Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

All options are on the table. Tenders have been issued to all private hospitals. This is not being done in a co-ordinated way by the association this time. Tenders have been issued for services, beds and surge capacity and are being negotiated hospital by hospital by the HSE. It is entirely possible that, as well as procuring beds and diagnostics, we will procure services on a procedure-by-procedure basis just like the NTPF does, which would involve the people currently working in those private institutions.