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

I will ask the Minister for Health to provide the Deputy with a more comprehensive response, but the winter plan has a number of elements. Opening additional bed capacity where it exists is only one part of it. Other measures are being put in place to reduce overcrowding, including more home care packages, more funding for the fair deal scheme, aids and appliances so that people can be discharged and preventative measures so that people do not have to be admitted in the first place.

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