James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

As a doctor, one does not only look at the signs and symptoms, one must treat the cause of the problem. One has to analyse the cause and must have one's diagnosis before one starts treatment. That is what we have done. The special delivery unit headed up by Dr. Martin Connor analysed why we have overcrowding in our emergency departments, in particular every January. Every hospital is different. We are successfully tackling the causes of overcrowding on a site-by-site basis.

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