Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 14 October 2020

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on Sláintecare

Mr. Dean Sullivan:

That is what I was saying. At the end of 2019, there were 13,241 permanently and recurrently funded acute beds in the system. Obviously, there are a number of temporarily funded beds, especially in the context of Covid, which can confuse matters a little. In terms of the budget announcement yesterday and the additional capacity that has been put in place on the ground through this year, we should have funding to allow us to increase that figure of 13,240 to just under 14,500 by the end of 2021.

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