Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion

1:30 pm

Photo of Billy KelleherBilly Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

There would still be emergency medicine staff in the annexe. One would not put them into an annexe, close the door and say: "We'll come back in a couple of hours." In recent times, we have had cases of patients dying on trolleys in corridors because of an inability to provide proper care in the corridor setting.

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