An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Seanad Éireann — 2024-10-08
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Paul Gavan (SF), Labour Panel

He is very kind to say that. My colleague Councillor Donna McGettigan highlighted just last night that a lady who has a complex series of issue went into University Hospital Limerick. Her blood pressure was taken and she was told she would have a long wait to see a doctor and have her bloods taken as there were 164 people waiting ahead of her. We are heading into another winter of crisis. We are 200 beds short in UHL and there is no plan to deal with the crisis. I ask the Minister who is not here, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, to come in and debate this with us. I know that is a call that has been echoed across the Chamber.

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