Ms Fiona Brady:

I made the very strong point earlier that if we are using private capacity for public waiting lists, for example, Beaumont Hospital, the referring consultant cannot be the treating consultant so consultants cannot refer a person from their public list to a private hospital and then head over there and see them themselves. You absolutely cannot do that. This year, 300,000 patients will be removed from the waiting lists because of the NTPF and 180,000 patients will have a better quality of life because of what we have done this year.