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

I said "many". The standards now are very high and it will not be possible to replace 200 years' worth of health infrastructure in the course of five or six years. However, we need a multi-annual programme that will allow us to make a good start on that. In the meantime, while we are doing that, admission should continue to those facilities that are a few decades old or much older.