Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Extra beds are being provided in the system, again reversing a Fianna Fáil policy on this occasion of taking hospital beds out of the system. Fianna Fáil and the Green Party in government, as Deputies will remember, even before the financial crisis started to reduce the number of beds in the hospital system. We have been reversing that for the past couple of years. It is making a difference in terms of overcrowding. Yes, we did have some very bad figures two or three weeks ago-----

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