Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 September 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on Sláintecare Reforms

Mr. Liam Woods:

The Senator is correct that the bulk of beds are not single-occupancy. I do not want to quote a number. I know we need at least 10,000 more single rooms if we were to go that direction entirely. Most new-build is single rooms. Not all new-build is single rooms because it is not always appropriate, but mostly they are. I am not sure if we have the number available here for that but we have a bed census that would tell us that. It is a much smaller portion of the total.

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