Ms Phil Ní Sheaghdha:

I think it is fair to say that we have to look at the times at which admissions take place. When we have an agreement in place - which we do, namely, the escalation policy - and any hospital has overcrowding to the level we have seen in all of our hospitals since last November, we then expect there to be very regular ward rounds focused on discharge and, in addition, an examination of instances, which we know are happening, where patients are being admitted because they cannot access diagnostics. We have examples of patients being admitted on a Friday for a scan on a Tuesday.