Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour) | Oireachtas source

If we have a bad flu epidemic this winter, we will face hell in our emergency departments. Listening to the radio most mornings, it galls me to hear private hospitals advertising - almost rolling out the red carpet - that they are available for anyone who has an emergency while down the road patients are waiting for hours or days on trolleys. Will the Minister consider renting, or in some way finding access for public patients to, these hospitals because in this day and age it is completely unacceptable to have this disparity?

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