Cabinet Committees
Dail Éireann — 2022-11-30
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Micheál Martin (FF), Cork South-Central

I do not think we will be able to give the full time to the next set of questions.
Deputy Bríd Smith raised the trolley crisis and bed capacity. We have improved bed capacity by close to 1,000 beds in the past two years, which is quite significant in itself, but we need to expand more. Post Covid, we have increased ICU beds and critical care beds significantly. Recruitment is the big issue within the HSE.

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Sitting date: 2022-11-30