Mr. Seán Egan:

I thank the Deputy for his questions. We did not do a specific audit of fire as part of this piece of work but we are aware of the work of the local fire officer in relation to services in the emergency department in general. Through our more general monitoring work in the service, there would be engagement with the local fire officials on fire safety. Clearly, overcrowding in that environment is a fire risk. It is something that would come up regularly on inspection but it was not specifically included within this body of work because we have an awareness that there is a challenge more generally.

On the engagement with clinicians, there was extensive engagement with them as part of this body of work.