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

That is what has occurred in the UK as well, as I understand it. For example, instead of consultants working 37 or 39 hours per week, they may decide to work in the public sector for 20 hours and there is nothing preventing them from working in the private sector for any number of hours they wish, but not in the HSE hospital. In other words, there will be no private work in HSE hospitals.