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

There is great variation among the hospitals. There are four hospitals in which nobody is waiting for more than nine hours on a trolley. They are St. James’s, Kerry, Navan and Cavan. There are others hospitals in which there is very severe overcrowding, such as Beaumont Hospital where more than 24 patients have been on trolleys for more than nine hours and there is a similar situation in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital. I hope the provision of 24 additional beds this summer through the modular development will help matters in Our Lady of Lourdes, however, as Senator Gilroy accurately pointed out, providing more beds does not necessarily reduce the number of trolleys.