Trevor Sargent (Dublin North, Green Party)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to debate the following urgent matter: to hear the case for a patient charter and additional resources for Beaumont Hospital to end the appalling overcrowding which last Monday resulted in a lady with a serious case of pneumonia being left on a hard plastic chair from 12.30 p.m. to 10.30 am., ten hours later, before being told the hospital had no space, even though she needed hospital care, and to have the Minister for Health and Children address this issue as a matter of urgency.

See this speech in context