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

I would appreciate that. HIQA had a problem with discharges out of the hospital in Galway. There was a difficulty with discharges from the hospital because of the fact that contracted beds were not available from the HSE. Is that a problem in a number of other areas as regards getting people out of hospital because there is not sufficient step-down facilities? Is HIQA finding that a challenge in the hospitals? If a bed is occupied in the hospital, it means there is someone else in the accident and emergency department waiting for a bed or waiting for an admission. How is that occurring at this stage? What is happening in that regard?