Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Does the Minister remain satisfied that adequate staffing can be made available throughout the service to ensure its workability, having particular regard to what he correctly identified as hospital and accident and emergency department overcrowding, and thereby alleviate the serious burden on the hospitals and on patients who are concerned about having to wait on seemingly never-ending waiting lists? As one who has repeatedly raised this question on waiting lists, I wonder if we could come to a stage in the not too distant future where we address the waiting lists in advance in order that they become much shorter than they are now.

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