The Labour Party has warned it will put a halt to all tendering for private-public hospital co-location projects if part of the next government.
Labour's deputy leader and health spokeswoman, Liz McManus, also said it would be wrong for the Government to sign the contracts for the clinics before the election.
"We believe that it would be politically and morally unacceptable for a government to sign such contracts on the eve of a general election. We have publicly said on many occasions that in government we will reverse the Harney policy, a position shared by Fine Gael," said Ms McManus.
Ms McManus said that the private clinics scheme would be a "disastrous development that would bring an additional two-tier element into a health service where already ability to pay too often determines the speed and quality of access to medical care".
The party placed an advertisement in today's Irish Timesstating: "The Labour Party in government will immediately terminate all progress on such projects except where contractual obligations otherwise oblige."
Ms McManus also promised that Labour in government would build 2,300 additional acute in-patient beds as well as 1,500 step-down beds for patients who no longer need acute care but are not well enough to be discharged.
As part of its strategy to deal with the A&E crisis, Labour plans to introduce health care at a community level.
The party would also introduce a separate stream in A&E for minor injuries, using the "see-and-treat" system applied in the United Kingdom in which a team of clinicians would see patients with minor injuries, treat them and send them home.