Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

This is an ongoing situation and the conditions are Third World. The staff simply cannot deal with the number of patients and are struggling to provide a decent and safe service. Will the Taoiseach apologise to patients and their families for the conditions they are being forced to endure in the emergency department? Will he immediately instruct the HSE to implement the proposal from the hospital and the HSE south-east to open additional beds at Our Lady's County Surgical Hospital in Cashel, step-down beds and additional beds in South Tipperary General Hospital and provide additional staff in the emergency department?

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