Maria Byrne (Fine Gael)

I was visiting somebody in a hospital recently, not UHL, and there was somebody in the bed opposite them. The person, a public patient, was brought because they were waiting on an MRI scan. They were told if they went home, they would lose their place. To me that person was bed blocking because they realistically did not need to be in that bed. I am sure this is happening across different hospitals. How can we address that issue? In that ward three people were bed blocking for different reasons. We should expect people to be able to get an MRI scan without having to go into hospital.