Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 23 April 2026

Public Accounts Committee

Hospital Insourcing Funding Arrangements: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I saw that across the OECD countries they also operate on the basis of 85%. The average bed occupancy rate in 2023 was 72%. The rate was higher than 85% in only two of the 29 countries with comparable data - Ireland and Canada. We are definitely an outlier in this sense.

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