James Bannon (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael)

I seek the Adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national and local importance, namely, the shocking rise in the number of patients on trolleys in accident and emergency departments in the Midland Regional Hospital from a figure of four in October 2007 to 132 in the same month this year, which is potentially life-threatening and a health and safety hazard, detrimental to patients' health and well-being and is being mirrored in accident and emergency departments throughout the country.

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