The Government is allocating €74m to try to deal with hospital overcrowding.
Of that figure, €44m has been allocated to provide 1,600 extra nursing home places under the Fair Deal scheme.
A further €30m is to provide temporary beds until June and extra community, convalescence and district hospital beds on a permanent basis.
The announcement was made as the Emergency Department Task Force plan was published.
The new measures will take around eight weeks to fully implement.
Around 260 community care beds will be made available around Ireland, with around 60 already open.
Minister for Health Leo Varadkar said overcrowding had eased since January but it remains higher than at this point last year.
However, he added overcrowding in Ireland's health service was worse than comparable health services.
He said delayed discharges had fallen to over 700 from a peak of 850.
Mr Varadkar said extra action was needed to provide more nursing home placements.
He said the measures will have a noticeable and measurable impact on trolleys, overcrowding and delayed discharges.
But he said it will not resolve problems in all hospitals.
He said some of the problems require better management and efficiency.
The minister said he was not complacent enough to think that the plan will get the health service through next winter and that structural reforms were also needed.
He said he would be looking for the extra funding to be included in the health budget for 2016.
The Irish Hospital Consultants' Association said the targets in the plan are not enough.
The association said there was a need to deal with insufficient capacity and underfunding.
There are 405 patients on trolleys or on wards today waiting for admission to a bed.
The worst affected hospital is Beaumont with 41 patients waiting.
General Secretary of the Irish Nurses & Midwives' Organisation Liam Doran said everything was now down to implementation of the Task Force report.
As joint-chair of the group, he said not everyone was happy with the plan.
He added the key issues were to deal with capacity, work practices and the potential in the document, if actioned and funded.
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