Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

That is simply unacceptable. There was a case recently of ambulances waiting outside CUH in Cork because they were unable to discharge patients due to the emergency department being overcrowded. Ambulances that there required elsewhere were waiting because the hospital could not discharge the patients. The Minister is trying to tell me that after three years that he has achieved an awful lot in terms of addressing the trolley counts, but that is simply not credible. The letter from the Irish Emergency Medicine Trainees' Association highlights the fact that after two years the HIQA report into Tallaght Hospital which made recommendations has not been acted upon. The Minister blames the HSE-----

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