Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I remember being in Jervis Street Hospital in 1972 when the fire broke out in Noyek's and patients were brought in to the emergency department. The wards were very big at the time with perhaps 50 patients. I do not suggest that as a resolution but it would be better than having patients in a corridor or anywhere else. At the same time such patients would be under observation because one nurse can observe several patients in a larger arena as well as or better than they can in a corridor.