Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Deputy read out that the HSE has 11,000 beds and we need to move from about 100% occupancy, which is unfortunately where we were, to about 80% occupancy. That would require about 2,200 additional beds. What I am saying to the Deputy is that, thanks to an awful lot of good work at every hospital and by central HSE working with the HPSC, the additional number of required beds has reduced from that high figure. There is not yet a final figure and it is being produced with the winter plan. As the Deputy and I-----