James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)

The Minister should eliminate delayed discharges by opening facilities in the community to allow those patients to be discharged because the guts of 1,000 beds would be available in the morning.

She did not answer the question. She stated planning permission has been granted and contacts signed for a number of these projects. When will the first beds be available? If she cannot say, she should tell the House she is not in a position to do so because all the talk about delivering value for money and so on is precisely that. It will not happen.

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