Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 February 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
North-South Co-operation on Health and EU Directive on Patients' Rights: Department of Health
10:25 am
Joe McHugh (Donegal North East, Fine Gael)
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To give a practical example, if Deputy Seán Conlan needed his hip replaced he could telephone a private hospital, and not just a public hospital, in Stuttgart, have the operation there, pay for it himself and be reimbursed for the amount it would have cost to have had it done in Ireland.