Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I take it the Deputy is referring to the co-location initiative. The initiative is designed to ensure that private beds in public hospitals are freed up for the use of public patients by having co-located private hospital beds built on public hospital sites. Successful bidders for 6 co-location sites have been selected and University College Hospital Galway is not among these sites. Expressions of interest were received from private consortia wishing to become involved in this initiative at University College Hospital Galway. However, as part of the competitive dialogue, the pre-qualified bidders decided, for commercial reasons, not to continue with the process in respect of Galway.