John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

The Minister and Professor Drumm always repeat this mantra about how we will deal with the capacity problem. In view of the major increase in the child population, however, it is clear we should increase the numbers of beds in paediatric services rather than decrease them from 480 to 380. How will the services cope with this reduction? I ask the Minister not to pass my question off by saying more patients will be treated as day cases. Does she recognise there will be a serious capacity problem if she proceeds in this way?

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