Dervla

I said it yesterday.

We would not be having this conversation if it was a male-only specific issue of surgery, and I used a prostate gland because women don't have them.

as if men don't have uteruses.

So it's the same thing.

You know, men, if this was a man issue, I promise you, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

And I'm certainly not one to come down heavily versus man versus woman.

I'm not.

But in this particular instance, I am 100% behind all the women listening to this program today.

that want the choice.

And it's the only seed of medicine that they will no longer have that choice.

That's all.

Oh, we absolutely would.

If a consultant was providing prostate care, and I am a man and I am of an age when this is something that I'm conscious of.

If a consultant was providing prostate care for me in a public hospital,

And that consultant has signed a contract, and this is what people seem not to want to face, signed a contract saying that they will only work in the public hospital with public patients.

If they were using those public facilities to say, ah, yeah, but Fenton's giving me a big chunk of money, so I'm just going to break my contract and I'm just going to give him preferential treatment, then

No.

You know, and the fact is that we, you know, the question that Collier was raising is about funding, and it's an absolutely proper question to raise.

Where is the money coming from?

We currently spend one of the highest proportions of our national income on healthcare in the world, right?