Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting

9:00 am

Mr. George MacGinnis:

I was not surprised that there were fewer beds in the audit. That is partly because of the measures the health service has been subjected to, including the year-on-year financial reductions following the financial crisis. I was not surprised that the number we were starting with was different or that wards have been assigned for a different purpose and so on. We have not looked at-----