Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will ask the Minister some fairly simple questions. The first relates to the bed capacity review. Can the Minister share the terms of reference with the House?

Second, since there has been much talk here today about capacity, whatever the Minister proposed to the INMO was rejected by its executive. That was made fairly clear and put in stark terms. Since we all are agreed, as we rarely can be, that capacity is the key and nurses are the key to being able to generate that capacity along with their colleagues and allied health professionals and other workers, what new proposal can the Minister present to the INMO executive that it has not rejected already?

With regard to the points I raised on the NTPF protocol that was written in 2014, had been available on the website and then was withdrawn fairly hastily, on the basis of what clinical evidence was that done and why? Clearly, what happened led directly to the programme we all saw on Monday. The Minister might explain that.

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