Ms Noeleen Moran:

Yes, it definitely would, but the beds have to be opened to do that. The promise, if Members remember, was that those services would be extended to 24-7. That has not materialised. It is the same with the changes that were made to the ambulance protocol. That was brought into effect, but only three beds were opened in the hospitals, so only three ambulances that find patients who meet the criteria can be left in Ennis. The rest have to bypass Ennis or Nenagh and be brought to University Hospital Limerick. It is just not at the scale it needs to be.