Fine Gael has promised to deliver 2,300 extra acute public hospital beds if elected to government on May 24th.
The party's health spokesman Dr Liam Twomey said his party's strategy would help combat the crisis in the State's accident and emergency rooms.
Fine Gael's Liam Twomey at a mock A&E department on Dublin's Grafton Street. Image: Niall Carson. PA.
The Fine Gael plan also includes 1,500 step-down beds and 15 urgent care centres across the country.
"There is no more visible sign of the crisis in the Irish health service than the waiting, overcrowding, delays, indignity and stress associated with turning up sick in an A&E department," Dr Twomey said.
"On the May 24th, the people can reject this chaos in health by electing a new Fine Gael-Labour government."
He said the delivery of acute beds would be made a priority by the HSE under a Fine Gael-lead government.
Dr Twomey also said plans to build private hospitals in the grounds of public hospitals would be scrapped because it is "more about incentivising developers and investors and not about facing up to the emergency of providing extra beds".