Liam Doran

over a 15-year period, then we can have the confidence to say to society and to every mother-to-be, to every elderly person, to every person with a chronic condition, you are safe in the public health service's hands.

We are still short acute hospital beds.

And by the way, acute hospital beds is not the solution to all our problems.

I keep looking at, I live in County Louth.

We have an ED department that's overworked in our Lady of Lures.

The nearest small injury unit, which is excellent by the way, is in Dundalk, 25 miles away.

We're looking at the growth of DRADA to increase from 50,000 to 80,000.

I don't see anything about a small injuries unit being built open seven days a week in DRADA.

They're the kind of joined up thinking we have to deliver.

But to do that, you need staff.

So you need to plan the number of undergraduate programmes for all those professions.

We need to retain more consultants, less reliance on doctors in training so that we gain the public's confidence.

And Slancher Care said there's a period of time, David, when we have to, if you like, double fund.

We have to fund up the public health service.

while maintaining private, while we wean that out so that at the end of the day we get a world-class public health service for all.

And I think we will see that in the coming weeks.

of himself or herself, will not deliver an improvement.

You have to have the support staff, right?

And that requires then, you have an extra number of nurses required or healthcare assistants required or allied health professionals required and NCHCs have got to be rostered.

So it is not just about consultant rostering.