Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

The second MRI scanner will be provided in Beaumont Hospital this year. The resources have been made available for the medical units. I cannot be certain about when the work will be finished on them but the money has been provided this year. Hopefully, they will be ready as soon as possible. The major accident and emergency plan is in place and, thankfully, it has always served us well. It creates disruption for others in hospital when it is invoked but it works well and it is upgraded all the time.

All these initiatives are under way but they are additional to ongoing work. Issues such as cleaning and so on should not arise because costly contracts are in place but I accept this report has highlighted some of these issues.

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