THE controversial co-location plan to build private hospitals on public hospital grounds has been scrapped, leaving the taxpayer potentially exposed to a multimillion euro compensation bill.

THE VHI’s refusal to guarantee cover for co-located hospitals on the grounds that they represent “additional capacity” in a saturated market is at odds with what it originally told the Government.

THE future of the Government’s controversial plan for co-located hospitals is in serious doubt after yet another contractual deadline was missed and opposition parties said they would bin the project if returned to government.

MULTI-MILLION euro proposals by a business consortium to construct a hotel on the grounds of a public hospital were ruled out by the HSE, it emerged last night.