Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Page 11 of A Programme for a Partnership Government refers to the Government's ambition for the health service. Today 56 people are on trolleys in University Hospital Limerick, which is an extremely high number in one hospital in one day, as I am sure the Taoiseach will agree. It is more shocking to know that today a record has been broken in that more than 10,000 people have been on trolleys in University Hospital Limerick so far this year. The figure is actually 10,028 people who have so far lingered on trolleys. It is a disgraceful new record set under this Government. When will my constituents in Limerick be provided with a health service that is not bursting at the seams with dangerous overcrowding? When will the long promised additional beds be delivered?

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