Willie O'Dea (Limerick City, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

One of the commitments in A Programme for a Partnership Government, on page 58 to be specific, is to reduce emergency department overcrowding. Yesterday there were 512 people on trolleys across the State. Of those, 69 were on trolleys in University Hospital Limerick. Will the Taoiseach tell the House when the new 60 bed unit, promised as a result of the reorganisation of accident and emergency services in the mid west, is going to materialise? Is it yet another project that will be put on the long finger, delayed or cancelled as a result of the children's hospital fiasco or for other reasons?

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