Ms Fionnuala Duffy:

To stick to the beds, we have approximately 22 intensive care beds across the hospitals currently, whereas we will have 60 intensive care beds in the new hospital. That is a huge difference in the make-up of the beds. There will also be single rooms. As outlined briefly last week, one can get a lot more patients through a hospital that has single rooms because one does not have to wait for isolation facilities. From tots to teens, one can use every room and is not trying to cohort similar patients in wards.