Professor Shane Higgins:

I would not agree with that, to be honest. First, we are a public hospital. I know that the word “private” has been bandied about. I know that the previous witnesses used the word “private” quite a lot. We are a public hospital. We are funded by the State. We have a very strict funding arrangement with the State through a service-level agreement, SLA. We have compliance statements every year that assure the State that we are providing the service for which we are being funded. There is no question about the model of care-----