Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Burke makes a very valid point. It is working very well in University Hospital Waterford, where we do not have any people on trolleys because we have a service level agreement for up to 45 beds in nursing homes throughout the community as far as Dungarvan and into New Ross. There is no shortage of money to do that. These are what we call "transitional step-down beds". In some cases, a resident who no longer needs to be in an acute hospital can be transferred to a transitional bed for up to 11 weeks. I appeal to all acute level 4 hospitals to make more use of this. I know, for example, in-----