Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 24 October 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Consideration and Implications of 2024 Health Services Funding: Discussion
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
First, we should use the transition care available to us. Again, contrary to the popular opinion in some quarters at the weekend, I have not cut that nor has the Secretary General asked me to. With regard to long-stay care, we use what is available and people exercise their choice in that area. To be fair, despite all the bad news about the budget, there is money to open the beds that we have already committed to building and additional public community beds will open next year. There is staffing available for that. We are making progress but it is at a certain pace.
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