Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

In TASC's vision of things, would we get rid of private health insurance altogether? I am in favour of doing so. To me, private health insurance is just parasitical. It flows, though, from the fact that there is fear about the inadequacy of the public health system. People feel they have to take it out as, literally, insurance against having to deal with being on a waiting list for years or being on a trolley for days. If we get to the health system we need, however we get there and however quickly we get there, is the endgame to get rid of the private health insurance for-profit industry completely?