An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Seanad Éireann — 2023-09-27
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Paul Gavan (SF), Labour Panel

I thank Senator Lombard, though, for his concern. University Hospital Limerick today has a new record with 124 patients on trolleys this morning, in September. What are we going to be facing in the winter months? We have a Minister who is in denial, who came into this Chamber and rejected the figures from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO. He actually said on radio in the summer that things are getting better. Things are getting worse. We are facing into a winter crisis. He has no idea how we are going to deal with it. The people of Limerick have no idea how they are going to manage. A record in September of 124 people on trolleys is nothing less than disgraceful. Both of these Ministers should go. I call for a debate on both of those topics.

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