Mr. Bernard Gloster:

Given that the Senator and I share the same county jersey, I share in the joy of that particular day. We have added 128 beds to Limerick. It is often forgotten that 32 have been put in since last New Year's Eve. That is very valuable bed stock. The 96-bed block is working and will continue to work to enormous effect because it is not just 96 beds. The management model of the hospital is increasing towards what we call cohorting. I will not bore members with what is behind that. Management processes like weekend discharging have been really taken on there at great pace. I was on for the past two weekends. They are outstripping themselves in terms of what they are doing. Regarding the 96-bed block, I have all of the evidence here by day and I can say that since 10 October, we have reduced trolleys by an average of 50% in that hospital. That is the impact of the beds and all those reforms. If we take the focus of the reform the Minister has emphasised since the start of the year around process and contract application and five over seven working and put that with a thing like cohorting where we group patients along with new bed stock, that is where we get real reform.