I have heard of patients, who have been taken into casualty units at 4 p.m. and are still lying on trolleys in corridors two days later because there are no beds available. The Midland Health Board allocated a complement of 12 beds to the Longford-Westmeath Hospital in Mullingar, but the Minister and his Department failed to provide the staff needed to operate them. These beds would provide treatment facilities for the people of the Midland Health Board region. It is scandalous.