Brendan Ryan (Labour)

I apologise but sometimes they upset me. I call for a debate on the creeping privatisation of public services, for example, psychological services for schools in Dublin. I discovered yesterday that some schools are given money and told to buy the service and their allocation of psychological support is withdrawn. That is privatisation. What is happening on the grounds of public hospitals is also privatisation, no matter what the Government calls it. Now there is a threat to hand over the Cork Maternity Hospital to the private sector as if it belonged to the Health Service Executive and not to the people.