Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)

I want to see people admitted to our public hospitals on the basis of medical need. Although it does not concern a member of Deputy O'Sullivan's party, it is ironic to see that I am being criticised in a County Louth newspaper by a public representative because a doctor who signed a public-only contract will not get a fee for private patients. That public representative of the Sinn Féin party calls it "ludicrous" that there will not be preferential access for these private patients. There is a mishmash of hypocrisy in all of this.

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