Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is a fair question. The Department has presented it like this because last year was a very unusual year in that a large amount of Covid funding was used to set up temporary beds. The beds came into existence last year. Those beds were one-off beds. This year, through the budget, we have permanently funded those beds. Some 611 of the beds were brought into existence physically last year but only funded to the end of the year. Through the winter plan and this budget, we have turned them into permanent beds for this year. The total permanent beds we are getting through this budget, which I guess is the question for us all, is-----