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Sat 05 May 2007Ahern and Ministers say Fine Gael health 'myth' exposedSharp exchanges over the feasibility of Fine Gael's commitment to put 2,300 new hospital beds into the health system and renewed Fianna Fáil overtures to Labour dominated the election campaign yesterday. Stephen Collins, Political Editor, reports.Minister for Health Mary Harney and the Taoiseach joined a number of Fianna Fáil Ministers in maintaining that the Fine Gael pledge on hospital beds had been exposed as unworkable in the leaders' television debate.