Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 23 October 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion
Dr. Donal de Buitléir:
We were not asked to look at that. The terms of reference were pretty tight. We had enough complicated issues to address not to mention taking on ones that we were not asked to look at. As a committee, we do not have a particular view on that. It would strike me that if one has no private practice in public hospitals, within ten years, it would be recommended that these facilities would have to be used for something else at the end of ten years.