Ivor Callely (Fianna Fail)

Will the Leader earmark for the new year a debate on the issue of supports in place for older people. I raise this in light of a number of cases that have been brought to my attention where pressure is being brought to bear on families to take their loved ones out of hospital beds because of bed closures in the season that is in it. One can understand that it is probably an opportunity to carry out certain works in hospitals and so on, but I understand there is an extraordinary number of bed closures this Christmas and new year——