Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

I did not say there is no problem. There will always be pressure and demand for improving the services and issues such as that which arose in St. James's Hospital today. This is not new and will not go away. Although we increased the bed capacity for intensive care unit beds from nine to 14 the hospital will at times run into difficulties. One serious road traffic accident, or operation, or one infection, can at any time create that difficulty. Although we continually increase the capacity I will not stand up here and say there will be some simple solution such that increasing capacity by another one or two will change the situation.

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