Colm Burke (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On what Mr. MacGinnis said, I had a case in a Dublin hospital where a person occupied a bed from February 2016 to November 2016. In May 2016, it was agreed that he needed to be moved to a step-down facility. However, there was a row between the HSE and the hospital as to where he should go and so a person occupied a bed from May 2016 to November 2016 while people were having a good stand-up row about how to manage it. That is an example of a hospital bed being occupied unnecessarily. It follows on from what the witness said earlier. That is one extreme example that I have come across. That was not in Cork but occurred in a Dublin hospital.