Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The National Treatment Purchase Fund is simply code for privatising a problem. We do not support that. We support investment in our public health service. There is €50 million of continued investment - that is it how it is termed - per year and yet the ministerial brief given to the Minister advises that there was only €28 million of funding spent in 2015. There is clearly a deficit in those figures. Was this primary funding or additional funding?

In terms of what the money is spent on, exactly how many episodes of care did this cover for the year?

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