James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)

I want to ask about the VHI and its recent edict to private hospitals, as reported to me, to the effect that there is now a cap on funds available and certain procedures must stop or they will not be paid for. I remind the House that the VHI's contract is with its clients. It cannot advise me as a client not to have a heart attack over Christmas, or any other ailment that might befall me or the hundreds of thousands of its members.

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