Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

I will not go through the numbers. I have already explained how many people go through our accident and emergency units. I am glad Deputy Kenny has distinguished between ones that are overcrowded and those that work extremely well. That is the position.

As I said previously, the action is that this year alone we have put a substantial part of both the capital and revenue budgets into providing extra facilities. Those facilities range from better cleaning to better complex tasks such as MRI scans——

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