Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

Since this occurred last year, there have been big changes in Tallaght Hospital. The board has been replaced, there is a new chairperson and CEO and there is a new regime in the hospital. Very big changes have been made in Tallaght Hospital itself.

Second, with regard to the wider issue of trolleys, when people present to a hospital and need to get treatment, they should be able to get a bed. That is the objective. We have had a pattern of people being kept on trolleys for far longer than they should be.

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