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23rd January 2018
12:32pm GMT

Health Minister Simon Harris recently recommended that the HSE introduce 2,500 new beds in Ireland by 2030.
The recommendation came as part of Bed Capacity Review Report, which the minister was due to bring before his cabinet colleagues today.
Today's national figure is just 9 patients shy of the all-time high trolley number, which was recorded earlier this month.
A record 677 patients were on trolleys in hospitals across the country on Wednesday 3 January at the peak of the flu season.
The HSE last week reported that at least 24 people had died from the flu this season in Ireland.
It has been the fifth-worse flu season since the year 2000, when records began.