Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

I believe we can do that this way very quickly. If we wait and take the long option of trying to provide 2,500 public beds on standalone sites, our experience is that it would take an age. We will continue as we are. Ireland and Norway have the highest expenditure on capital projects in the health service. To do it quicker would be to take 1,000 of the 2,500 private ring-fenced beds——

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