Fianna Fáil TD Stephen Donnelly (top) Larry Goodman Above left) and Denis O’Brien
Fianna Fáil’s Stephen Donnelly says we are paying €150 million a month for hospitals we are currently not using. He says it is now time to cancel the contract with private hospitals. | Follow live #coronavirus updates: https://t.co/bgB6t1Zbkx pic.twitter.com/m9kslH5NNn
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) May 14, 2020
This afternoon.
Fianna Fail TD Stephen Donnelly pursues the governmetn the cost of leasing private hospitals during Covid-19.
In April, the state paid €115 million for mostly unused private beds from the Bon Secours health group,, Denis O’Brien’s Beacon Medical Group and Larry Goodman’s Galway Clinic among others.
In The Dáil last week, RISE TD Paul Murphy TD raised the discrepancy between the €44,000 paid per bed in Ireland and the €10,000 paid per bed in Britain.
Good times.
Last week: €44,000 Paid Per Private Bed In April
Wouldn’t it be simpler to just… use them? Those of us lingering on waiting lists would be perfectly happy to attend a non-Covid19 hospital for the long-awaited treatment.
Unless, of course, the doctors are all working on Covid19, and the idea is to take them off that job and return them to their private practices?
Fayla to learn, learn to Fayla.
Most people are already infected and have immunity?
I think you are on the wrong post/ website?
Having been infected doesn’t necessarily mean you have immunity.
Is it fg policy to make redacted wealthier every time they come to power?
Surely the time to whinge about Dinny and Lars was when they got involved with healthcare and not after? It’s long been a tax efficient way to print money. As for the Bon Secours – they can tooty pants off.
Yes it is, and always will be. Don’t exclude FF from that either Joe.
Is this Stephen Donnelly trying to look as some sort of opposition of FF to FG, while FF wants to sleep with FG?
Dinny (Obese) and Lars (aged 103) are both in high risk groups by the look of it. They need somewhere to go and get priority treatment.
Was some emergency legislation passed once to enable Larry-maith-an-fear, (as Christy Moore used to call him), to get out of some difficulties?
https://www.irishexaminer.com/breakingnews/views/columnists/plenty-of-options-open-to-ireland-to-lessen-the-blow-of-a-no-deal-946156.html
Mentioned in that
Public and private medicine need to be merged and become quality universal medicine available to all citizens and residents in the state. I don’t care what kind of political representative says this – whether cute hoors, clientalists, crypto-fascists, liberals or social democrats. Ideas need to be considered on their own merits, not according to whether they are aired by chancers, angels, devils or ranting leftists or moderate bourgeois radicals.
+1
+ 1916
Tis payback time for donating towards the last election. Anyway, Larry Goodfella could do with getting the Galway Clinic back to treat his min. wage slavies who are coming down with Covid on a daily basis
He’s right. They should return the private hospitals and let them get back to hip operations and the like.
Hip-op hooray, hey, hoooooo
What is the level of infection in the meat processing sector, and how many many beds
and facilities remain unused in the Private Hospital Sector since the middle of March