David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I received a response to a parliamentary question a number of weeks ago that I thought was chilling because we all know about the levels of overcrowding in our hospitals. Some hospitals are worse than others and maybe there are issues in individual hospitals that must be dealt with as well as structural and capacity problems. The response told me that in the month of January, almost 1,100 patients over the age of 75 were on a hospital trolley for more than 24 hours. Some of them were on trolleys for more than 48 hours. Given that Ms McGowan works in an emergency department in a busy hospital, will she outline the impact of overcrowding on patients - older and younger people and children?