Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 November 2016
Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare
Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups
9:00 am
Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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It strikes me as if there is a perverse incentive. If hospitals are under pressure, then they have little choice but to maximise their income from private patients. That is not what public hospitals should be doing.