Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)

When is it intended to introduce the health governance Bill and will the special delivery unit be put on a statutory basis? I ask this in the context of the grotesque overcrowding at Beaumont Hospital's accident and emergency unit last Monday night. The Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Shortall, is sitting beside the Tánaiste. There were trolleys three deep. It was horrendous. When we were all over on this side of the House, many a morning on the Order of Business the Tánaiste lambasted the former Government for allowing emergency rooms to be in the condition-----

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