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

Some 99% of people waiting for inpatient procedures were treated in under eight months. When Fianna Fáil was in power, it had neither targets nor figures. It threw billions at the problem and quadrupled the health spend over a 12-year period. However, we still ended up with a dreadful crisis in the health service. In that context and as the Deputy alluded to, on a single day in January 2011 there were 569 people on trolleys in our hospitals.

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