Denis Naughten (Roscommon-South Leitrim, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Following any 999 or 112 ambulance call a patient must be transferred to the nearest emergency department. Twelve months ago HIQA recommended that patients be transferred to minor injury units, where appropriate, rather than bringing them to emergency departments. No. 98 on the list of promised legislation is the health reform Bill. Can we have this issue looked at under that Bill? The policy is forcing older people to lie on trolleys in emergency departments for hours when they could be treated at their local hospital.

I know that the Taoiseach tasked Deputy Martin Heydon to produce a report on flooding on the River Shannon. Can that report be placed in the Oireachtas Library?

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