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

The important thing is that we do not plan to fail but many times we do. We plan for now rather than for the future. We need to plan for now and also for the future. Every second week we speak about the crisis in University Hospital Limerick. If we do not put in the number of beds that are clearly needed in the hospital system there we will fail again. If the plan does not cover a sufficient number of beds now and we are speaking about building then it will take another two years. However, two years later we will realise that we still do not have enough beds. We are not planning for the demands of the future. This is the big challenge that we face.