Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Those are the figures and I have a full table for every county. Unless this matter is tackled we will have fewer beds available for people. In the past three months I have been trying to get people out of Cork University Hospital.

People were in that hospital three to four months longer than they should have been because they could not get an appropriate bed in a step-down or nursing home facility. That is costing time for everyone. We need hospital beds and there are huge pressures in that regard. If we cannot get people out in a timely manner, we will have even more congestion in our hospitals. I ask that this matter be reviewed.

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