Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

The National Treatment Purchase Fund recently celebrated the treatment of 100,000 people, 90% of whom were treated in private hospitals in Ireland. Some people from Dublin went to the country for treatment and vice versa. I met and continue to meet such patients and what matters above all else to them is getting the appropriate treatment when they need it. They do not care who put up the money to put in place the facility once it is quality assured and they know they will get better. This is what the patients want.

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