Mairead Farrell (Galway West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Chronic underfunding in our health service left us on the back foot when it came to this pandemic. We recently heard that there is no date in sight for when a planning application might be lodged for the new accident and emergency department at University Hospital Galway, UHG. In the past two weeks, UHG has consistently been the most or second most overcrowded hospital in the State. We cannot return to pre-pandemic overcrowding in our hospitals. We know we have an infrastructural deficit in this area. What will be done to urgently combat this problem in Galway?

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