Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 January 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Emergency Department Overcrowding: Discussion
1:30 pm
Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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I presume the blockage, such as it is, relates to the Department of Health. Am I barking up the wrong tree? Is there somewhere else from where the money should be coming? All of these issues are interlinked, which is exactly what I was driving at when I said I get confused about the figures. If all of the people in charge of this have agreed that 107 nurses are needed for the boarded patients, or whatever phrase we want to use, the poor unfortunates on trolleys is what most people call them, but there is no funding for this. I presume this should come from the Department of Health.