Ms Bernadette Weir:

Yes. They agree a cost per patient so that they will see additional outpatients at a cost of, for example, €200 per patient, which will be the cost of running the clinic. There might be a diagnostic involved, the patient will be brought in, there might be a porter or a nurse on site, there might be a consultant, and the cost of an X-ray might need to be covered. We would agree then with the public hospital that we will fund it for an additional €300 - for example, orthopaedic outpatient appointments at a cost of €200 per patient for the year ahead. It is then for the public hospital to administer those clinics and they will invoice us for those. We will compare then when the invoices come in and we will check that those patients were long-waiting patients on a public waiting list in that hospital.