Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 17 January 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Challenges Facing Emergency Departments in Public Hospitals: HSE
David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
Mr. Mulvany has answered the question for me. The announcement in October 2020 of the budget for 2021 included 1,146 beds. An additional ten, to which he referred, were repurposed from somewhere else. Another 71 beds were included in the service plan for 2021. No additional beds have been funded since then. He is talking about beds that must be delivered and that were not delivered at that time. We could not open those beds quickly enough. They were funded under budget 2021.
Outside of that 1,228 figure, how many beds were funded in the budget we have just had?
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