Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 November 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
HSE Winter Plan 2022-2023: HSE
Mr. Damien McCallion:
On the balance, we can tell the Deputy where those sites and the delays are, and when their target opening dates are.
Some of them will be in early 2023. On the point about the lack of capacity, there is a bigger challenge there in terms of generating bed capacity around the country. We are looking at this problem in the short, medium and long term. The short term is the winter plan. The medium term is over the next three years. This involves all the elements that Mr. Mulvany referred to in his opening statement around primary care and other investments and, lastly, working with the Department on bed capacity in terms of where we go in the future.
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