880. Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for Health to establish and advise if due to an agreement between the National Rehabilitation Hospital and a provider (details supplied) patients presenting who are already users of prosthesis from other providers, with which they are most satisfied and accustomed, are being refused access to see a consultant at any of the hospital's facilities or joint facilities unless they agree to move from their prosthetic provider to the hospital's preferred provider; his views on the appropriateness of this closed shop arrangement; if there are competition law issues involved; his plans to open up the hospital service to all prosthesis users without discrimination based on their previous and preferred supplier choice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10397/16]

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880. Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin asked the Minister for Health to establish and advise if due to an agreement between the National Rehabilitation Hospital and a provider (details supplied) patients presenting who are already users of prosthesis from other providers, with which they are most satisfied and accustomed, are being refused access to see a consultant at any of the hospital's facilities or joint facilities unless they agree to move from their prosthetic provider to the hospital's preferred provider; his views on the appropriateness of this closed shop arrangement; if there are competition law issues involved; his plans to open up the hospital service to all prosthesis users without discrimination based on their previous and preferred supplier choice; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10397/16]

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