Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Kelly for raising the matter. I do need to say, because he made the comment about the MRI, that he and colleagues, including Senator Kieran O'Donnell, at a previous committee meeting stated that based on their conversations with staff and management in University Hospital Limerick the hospital needed a second MRI and that if it got that second MRI, and the record of the committee will show this, up to 30 beds a day could be freed up. I do not mean to throw the words of the Deputy back at him but that was the view.