Eamon Gilmore
Question:152 Deputy Eamon Gilmore asked the Minister for Health and Children if a company (details supplied) is contracted by the National Treatment Purchase Fund to carry out scans on patients on the waiting list for the Eye and Ear Hospital; if the CTs are actually completed in St. Vincent’s using St. Vincent’s equipment, and the private company concerned pays St. Vincent’s for the work; the reason the involvement of a private company is necessary in this process; if it would not be more efficient and economical for the NTPF to deal directly with St. Vincent’s; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19557/10]
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