Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 January 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion
1:30 pm
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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I will be brief as I am conscious that this meeting has run over time. I thank the guests for attending and for their concise presentations. I have a general question on emergency departments. Does Dr. O'Conor know whether all emergency departments operate a triage policy? If they do, does it operate 24 hours a day? Who oversees or runs it? Does she know how many medical staff, on average, are trainees in the emergency departments? If the percentage is high, does she think it has an effect on emergency departments operating to the necessary standards?