Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin
Question:623 Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for Health in view of the practice of private clinics and hospitals of utilising private ambulance services for the transport and transfer of patients requiring more acute and immediate specialist care in public departments and hospitals, with patients and/or their insurance companies billed accordingly to cover the expense, if such private patients and their insurance companies are billed for public ambulance transport used when said private ambulance services are not available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32015/12]
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