Ms Phil Ní Sheaghdha:

There are 54 patients admitted to Galway hospitals today for whom there are no beds. Mayo has 27, Sligo has 13 and Letterkenny has 46. That healthcare group has a chronic overcrowding problem, and one hospital cannot help the other. Clearly, if there are 54 patients on trolleys, that are almost two wards on trolleys in the emergency department, and nothing else will happen in that hospital because it cannot. They are not day cases; they are inpatients. They have been admitted because they are sick enough to require hospital care.