Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

However, Mr. Mulvany must also accept that Cork University Hospital takes in people from outside its area and that there is therefore more demand for beds within its hospital structure. With regard to cases where it is clear that people can be discharged, to be fair to the people in charge in CUH, they are having difficulty in getting people out. They are doing everything possible to get people out. The problem is that we do not have beds to get them out to. I am asking that this be looked at. We want to make the hospital more efficient and it wants to be more efficient but it is being frustrated because it cannot access the beds.