Sinn Féin to protest against private health centres

Sinn Féin activists are to protest at 11 hospitals today against government plans to allow private health centres to be built on the same sites as public units.

Caoimhghin O’Caolain TD, the party’s health spokesman and leader in the Dáil, claimed it would create a land bonanza for developers and he warned that it would bring "further inequality" to the healthcare sector.