Brian Lenihan Jnr (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)

The Deputy's party cannot continue to oppose the co-location initiative on the basis that private hospitals should be situated elsewhere, while its potential partner in Government does not want private facilities located beside their public counterparts. The two parties are coming from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum. The solution we propose is the only practical one of its kind in respect of bed capacity and the maximum efficiency of hospitals that is available and in the interests of public patients.

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