James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)

I extend my sympathies to her family. It is all plans for tomorrow and cutbacks today. Irish men, women and children are dying. Will the Minister use modular hospitals, as they do throughout Europe, to build 1,500 community beds, rather than 200 or 300 such beds, over the next six months? I thank the Minister for alluding to such hospitals earlier in response to a question I asked. The Minister for Education and Science plans to use schools in such a manner. We need to get those who do not need to be in our hospitals out of our hospitals. Will the Minister at least free up the beds that are currently there?

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