Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 January 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion

1:30 pm

Photo of Colm BurkeColm Burke (Fine Gael)
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They raised this with me in early January. I did not mention it to the Minister. My understanding was that engagement was to take place, but that it has not taken place. At a time of overcrowding in the hospitals, there are 742 vacant beds.