Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)

I am very much looking forward to going to University Hospital Kerry. I do not believe that there has been a change in the number of presentations to the emergency department there. The Deputy is quite right to highlight the very great distress that people in Kerry have experienced with overcrowding in the emergency department of the hospital. This went on right through February and March. It is exactly why I am so focused on making a whole-of-hospital response to make sure the Deputy's constituents are not in that situation. I am simply saying that the answer is complex. I do not see any drop in the number of presentations. In fact, there has been an increase in the number of presentations in most of the hospitals. There is not even a winter-summer variance in it. It is consistently increasing in most places, although I will get a detailed breakdown on that for Kerry. All hospitals need increased investment and I very much look forward to coming to understand the detail and the nuances in Kerry as soon as I have the opportunity to do so. There are 29 acute hospitals and I think I have been to 15 of them. I am doing my best to understand the feel of every place so far.