Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

The development of an extension to the accident and emergency unit at St. James's Hospital has almost been completed. It is scheduled to open in the next few months. A new admissions facility at Mater Misericordiae University Hospital's accident and emergency department opened in December and is now up and running. All of these new facilities have opened. It is not true to say the Tánaiste's ten-point plan has delivered nothing, a year on, because the facilities I have mentioned have opened and are in daily operation. It is true, however, to say there are people on waiting lists and on trolleys in a number of hospitals because the figures are published every day and every week.

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