Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I wish to ask the Minister for Health about the status of the bed capacity review. I have raised this issue on a number of occasions and I would like to know the status of the review and where we are in the context of the terms of reference. Who will be independently validating the bed capacity review, particularly in view of the fact that for many years it was the policy of the Department of Health to reduce bed capacity? The Department, through the Minister and his predecessors, defended, quite robustly, the policy that bed numbers should be reduced and that beds were not always the answer to the issues of capacity in the hospital system.

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