Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Given the Minister's statement today, I do not disbelieve there is change. Nobody listening to today's events and previous events will doubt there is change. How fast that is going is the question. We all want universal healthcare. We want a system that ends the two-tier health system.

What is the current position on reform with regard to private healthcare in public hospitals? It is one of the concepts of change in Sláintecare. For most people, that is counter-intuitive to what universal healthcare actually means. Is there resistance from private medicine to decoupling that from our public hospitals? As I said, most people hearing about that concept of private healthcare in public hospitals would say that if the Government does not start with that, then we have a problem.