Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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That is fine. I am basically saying that regardless of the hospital, the rules will be the same. If the rule is that there should be no private practice in public hospitals, there will be no private practice in any public hospital, whether it is the children's hospital or elsewhere. In fairness to people developing hospitals, that is not the position now and our consultants are not operating under those contracts, so private practice is taking place in public hospitals. I am saying that if the practice changes - I cannot pre-empt Government decisions on the de Buitléir report and all that stuff - the use of those facilities will change as well.