Sinead O'Carroll
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350 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 15 Jun
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There's like buildings, but in the rotunda.
So some of the private consultants, so some of the consultants who had signed the public only contract, which says you cannot do private work, were also undertaking some of that private work and they were doing it on the public.
in the Rotunda School.
The Rotunda Board had given the okay for this.
And when the Department of Health and the Minister for Health found out or became more clear what's happening, they said, absolutely not.
If you're a public, if you've signed a public-only contract, you cannot take on private work.
So there was kind of a...
couple of weeks standoff between the rotunda and the minister for health and the minister for health has kind of come out on top on this one and they have said okay yeah we have to stop all the private so no no woman who's attending the rotunda can pay for a private consultant um to lead their care which is different to having private health insurance yeah so i
That's some muddy waters that I think we're still going to have to deal with.
And there has been a conflation of that because...
So this was a specific row about if you have signed a public only contract, should you be allowed to do private work?
And there's kind of a black and whiteness about that.
You've signed a public contract, so therefore you kind of have to just follow that contract.
And like, as Jennifer Calvert-McNeil was at pains to say, it was well remunerated, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
But it was kind of conflated with another argument about whether women should have choice where they're going.
about going public or private and because there's no private hospital if there is to be a choice then they kind of have to coexist um because otherwise there is no choice so that's how the two arguments became conflated because if you if you if they can't coexist if public and private care can't coexist in one location well then you can't offer choice um and
I think this is where we started to kind of disagree with each other along the way is, you know, the Minister for Health is saying, but like, we won't get to the care that everyone wants in the public system until we actually just make a decision that it's the public system.
I think where a lot of women are kind of looking on, but where's the detail?
Like, how are you going to make the public system behave like the private system that I got to choose?
Like, how can I make sure that I get the same consultant every time I go back?
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