The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) procures capacity for high-volume acute hospital procedures in order to reduce waiting times for patients. Such procedures may be procured in both private hospitals (outsourcing), or public hospitals (insourcing). In order to ensure competitive pricing as part of their outsourcing programme, the NTPF works with private hospitals from a panel agreement and engages in procurement processes through e-tender.The HSE may also procure additional capacity and activity from private hospitals. Neither the HSE nor the NTPF publish details regarding individual private hospitals, as such information is commercially sensitive. The payments made to individual private hospitals or private hospital groups under agreements made in response to the Covid-19 pandemic are also commercially sensitive, therefore are confidential and the details of the individual payments will not be published. I am therefore not in a position to publish the amounts paid to the hospital the Deputy refers to.