Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

That is good. I thank Ms Broderick for that. The other two areas of accountability obviously relate to the two areas identified in Mr. Justice Frank Clarke's report, one of which was the completely inadequate capacity within the mid-west region in terms of emergency department, ED, capacity. That has to be a matter of political accountability. One does have to wonder about the original configuration arising out of the Horwath report in 2008. That report was very clear that UHL needed to get up to a level of over 600 beds before the three other EDs were closed. Six Ministers for Health later and that has not happened. We are still more than 100 beds short of what was recommended at that stage in 2008 and the population, of course, has grown very considerably. All Ministers, including the current Minister, have to take responsibility for that. It was made very clear at the time of the reconfiguration, and we have had major problems in the period since then. Will the Minister-----