Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The president of the Irish Hospital Consultants Association, Dr. Gerard Crotty, has stated that the cause of accident and emergency overcrowding is a lack of capacity because not enough money has been allocated. Will the Taoiseach acknowledge that the Government, for ideological reasons, has underinvested in the public health system, that the overcrowding in accident and emergency units is a result of that policy and that today's announcement of strike action by nurses is an entirely understandable response?

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