David Quinn

I mean, I have private health cover for my family.

I'd much rather not have it, by the way.

I'd much rather that the public system was so good

I could dispense with the cost of having to have private health cover.

But I'd say if you kind of overlapped private health patients with Fine Gael voters, you'd find an extremely large, almost one-for-one overlap.

And I would think that if Fine Gael overall set itself in some ideological way, which is so unlikely when it's Fine Gael against private health cover, I think then you'd begin to see a backlash.

Now, do you see, it's not quite respectable...

in a way, in public to have private health cover.

Nobody kind of likes to admit it.

Even though nearly half the country do.

So they kind of keep their heads down.

But they'll be secretly waiting in the long grass for somebody who's after private health.

So is that purely performative?

Well, I mean, so one of the things that struck me, reading that piece, it's the same thing that struck you.

If the tensions go back 10 years, why are we only fighting that about them now?

I mean, it's a pretty big political story.

So kind of, you know, why weren't the Polcors all over this?

And so what Shane Ross is mainly doing in his piece is kind of detailing the history of the tensions between the two brothers, which has now finally come out into the open.

And I mean, there's no way, it wasn't known around Leinster House and there's no way the parkours weren't picking it up.

So it's kind of a bit mysterious to me why such a kind of big political story I mean, obviously it's broken out into the open big time now because of the Michael Healy-Ray interview, but nonetheless it was there waiting to be broken open before.