David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will put it to Mr. Kearns that we fell into that by accident in budget 2021 when, he might recall, there was an announcement of 1,147 additional acute inpatient beds. In the last year's budget and the budget for the year before that, there were big numbers for additional staff, most of which were not realised. It was never going to be done in one year-----