There is also the separate issue of private hospitals and the co-location initiative which was driven by the ideology of the now politically defunct Progressive Democrats but which still runs riot over the provision of health facilities in this country and which, both now and in the future, an unfair proportion of the tax foregone. This is wrong. It is simply in existence to concede to a political ideology of free market extremism and far-right ideology as put forward by the Progressive Democrats and by the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Mary Harney.

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