I heard last week of a number of cases involving consultants for public patients standing around with nothing to do, because the hospital beds have been closed off, yet the State is paying for some urgent cases to go to private hospitals abroad, and the same consultants are being asked to go over and be paid for working in private hospitals. This situation is very hard for an outsider to understand as it must surely be cheaper to treat people in this country rather than send them abroad. I even heard a radio advertisement recently inviting patients to apply for treatment abroad.