Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My understanding is that there was not any work done on Covid-19. The Covid-19 patients were all brought into the public hospitals and the private hospitals were to try to keep the urgent non-Covid-19 public work going. I may be slightly wrong here but, for example, my understanding is that the public St. Vincent’s University Hospital took over St. Vincent’s Private Hospital’s operating theatres and so forth and many of the urgent cancer work for public patients ended up being done there using their resources. However, there were other hospitals such as, for example, the Bon Secours Hospital, Limerick, where there was a very small volume of additional care undertaken. It is a mixed bag. At the time, I submitted parliamentary questions to get exactly what the numbers were for different types of procedures done and I presume that all that information is available. I can get that information for the Deputy if he would like.