Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

Obviously standards have changed and a lot of that is welcome as regards people sharing and so on. We can see the 80:20 ratio between private and public and Mr. Healy has told us that there is a loss of beds. He has also identified capital needs for the 20% to bring them up to standard. Has the HSE actually opened any new beds or are there proposals to open any new beds under the public system?