Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats)
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It is the ultimate early intervention service. It is madness and very wrong if there are widespread vacancies. The presentation referred to facilitated access to hundreds of thousands of diagnostic scans for GP patients. Will the Minister clarify how that system works at the moment? I am hearing mixed views on it. In some cases, people are saying they can no longer go to a hospital for an MRI. What is the arrangement in terms of reimbursement for the private providers relative to hospitals doing the diagnostic testing?