Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is probably important to we remind ourselves that there was so much that worked during the pandemic. Dr. Burke mentioned some of the innovative things, such as the GP diagnostics and so on, but there was much that did not work or deliver. There was talk about a single-tier health system, but we know that private beds were not fully utilised. Was there a pushback within the system, in that it did not necessarily wish to go down that road? We still have not gotten satisfactory answers on why we did not fully utilise those beds. It seemed crazy that we were not using empty beds as part of a fully functional health system. The only conclusion most people could come to was that there was pushback within the service or wherever, but we did not get answers.