Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to highlight the ongoing crisis in the health service in my county, Tipperary. Yesterday, 41 people were on trolleys in South Tipperary General Hospital. Given the size of the hospital and the population it serves, that has to be a record. The long-promised modular unit in Clonmel is still lying idle because of a failure to recruit staff. Our Lady's Hospital in Cashel is lying idle just 12 or 13 miles away. Nenagh General Hospital is being underutilised and emergency department in University Hospital Limerick is in crisis. The people of Tipperary are fed up with the lack of service and people are dying because of that in the county. We want improvements.

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