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

The Government will do everything it can to improve access to our hospitals and reduce overcrowding. That involves providing more beds, which is being done. We are up to 11,000 beds now, which is back to where we were ten years ago in terms of acute capacity in our hospitals. We have more doctors in our health service than ever before and 600 more nurses than this time last year. Additional resources are available for the fair deal scheme and for home care, and we will roll these out. We will push all of those solutions and hopefully they will make a difference.

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