Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

We have provided private beds for the patients in question. We provided 250 beds before Christmas and we are providing a further 250 beds now. We have had to buy private accommodation in which these people can be located. That is the only way to free beds in accident and emergency departments so that people can move through the system. I will outline what the Tánaiste has been doing for the past 18 months——

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