Hospital Overcrowding
Dail Éireann — 2021-07-13
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David Cullinane (SF), Waterford

My question is about overcrowding in acute hospitals. I am sure the Minister will have seen the repeated warnings from healthcare trade unions over the past number of weeks to the effect that hospital overcrowding is very close to being back at pre-pandemic levels, which is unacceptable.
We know overcrowding in hospitals is a symptom of a wider problem with regard to a lack of capacity. What are the levels of overcrowding in hospitals? What is the Minister going to do to increase capacity in our public systems to reduce overcrowding on one hand but also reduce unacceptably high wait times?

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Sitting date: 2021-07-13