Did you know…

There are 3 different types of hospitals in Ireland:

• Public hospitals run by the State through the Health Service Executive.
• Voluntary public hospitals, are mainly state-funded but are sometimes owned by private bodies. For example, religious orders. … 
• Private hospitals receive no state funding.

Funding……

https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-41383537.html

Public hospitals that are ultimately managed by

HSE (although the model is again currently in transition to RHAs). Voluntary hospitals that are managed by an independent board outside the control of the HSE, but still funded by taxpayers (https://foi.gov.ie/voluntary-hospitals/). And Private hospitals that operate independent of taxpayer funding. From a cancer perspective, the Dublin public hospitals are Voluntary Hospitals, and the cancer centres outside of Dublin are Public Hospitals run by the HSE.