Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

-----just as the Taoiseach fudged the answer now. It is a core question.

This was coming for quite a long time and the new Minister was told about it in July. Let us go back to the budget 12 months ago and the fraudulent figures with which we were presented. The Taoiseach closed beds during the year. A total of 48 beds were closed in St. Luke's General Hospital in Kilkenny, 14 beds were closed in South Tipperary General Hospital and 75 beds were closed in St. Joseph's Hospital in Ennis. I have a list of all the beds which were closed. As well as this, 1,400 beds were taken from what had been provided under the fair deal scheme two years ago. In the name of God, how did the Taoiseach think the system would cope with this?

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