Frances Fitzgerald (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The work is ongoing and it will be received. I would also put on the record of the House that the current fragmented arrangements for dealing with trauma in hospitals in Ireland have long been a point of discussion, and trauma services are one of those service areas that require a national policy direction. That is what is being worked on at present. To say anything else, or to say that emergency departments are now under threat because we are discussing how best to deal with patients who suffer traumatic injuries, is incorrect.

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