Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy. I understand the Taoiseach is going to meet them and the Minister for Health has or is about to meet with the advisory council. I am not pointing any fingers here. The Deputy is the one who has been pointing fingers. I do agree with her that Covid care is a very good example of how we can run a health service well in the future. What she may not know, or may not wish to acknowledge, is that a huge amount of what has been done on Covid care in the past year or two has been done in the form of a public-private partnership, with a large degree of outsourcing: private contractors, private hospitals, GPs who are private contractors providing these services, private labs and private recruitment services that were used to bypass the cumbersome public systems that slow down recruitment.

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