Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

——there are proposals from doctors there to build an independent cancer centre on the grounds of Galway hospital. Many Deputies, however, are talking about public hospitals as if they were only accessible on the basis of medical need. The reality is that at the moment 20% of the beds, 100% funded by taxpayers, are only available to insured patients. I believe that is unfair.

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