Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)

They are. In a moment, I will give data on beds. With fewer beds there are more than 1 million more people being treated in our hospitals. The solution is not more of the same and pouring more money into doing things the way they have always been done. There must be change through innovation like the acute medicine programme, which I know Deputies opposite have been briefed on and which is to be introduced in some of our hospitals. As some hospitals are not performing to the standard expected, we have brought in teams to help them. It is being done in the UK. The teams that were involved in the UK are here to help our hospitals.

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