Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

I am trying to create the facilities in public hospitals to give more beds for public patients so public patients can get equity, good service and good medical staff. As I said when this came up the last day, I do not object to the same consultants also working in the collocated site in their private capacity. I object to public patients not being able to get into a public hospital because a large amount of the beds, fully subsidised by the taxpayer, are not open to public patients.

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