Hospital Overcrowding
Dail Éireann — 2023-06-01
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Duncan Smith (LAB), Dublin Fingal

May saw 11,856 people, including 300 children, waiting on trolleys. What plans does the Minister have to end hospital overcrowding and accident and emergency department wait times, knowing that the numbers in May were higher than the numbers in January when we had triple the respiratory threat?

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Sitting date: 2023-06-01