Dervla

They shouldn't, you know, like that is public money that shouldn't be subsidising private care.

I would have a lot of issues with the consultants who signed the public-only contract when presumably they didn't have to, as they didn't in Hollis Street.

And it really smacks of greed that the public-only contracts, they were going to get more money from public parts, but that they were going to, in the back door, have private care as well.

That's

That kind of stinks to me now, to be honest.

Well, there you go.

I don't know.

I don't have a clue.

I don't know.

But they certainly have skin in the game financially in making their arguments about women having choice.

And, you know, they're not arguing for all women to have the choice.

They're only arguing for the women who are going to pay them the extra bucks for their mixers.

You know, so I wouldn't really have any truck with that.

Now, the irony of it is that a number of years ago, I had a baby in the rotunda and I had the choice of

I had the choice of going private or semi-private, and I opted to go semi-private.

And I do believe in public health care, and I remember at the time thinking it was wrong that I had that choice, but I was presented with that choice.

And I chose semi-private because the choice that I wanted, I mean, I didn't really, consultants are not neither here nor there, because I think if you are at risk and you need a consultant, you're going to get that within the public system.

But I wanted to have

a woman as my obstetrician and I wanted continuity of care.

I wanted to see the same person through the pregnancy.