Richard O'Donoghue (Limerick County, Independent) | Oireachtas source

In University Hospital Limerick, there were 86 patients on beds on 24 January; 97 patients on 25 January and 111 patients on 26 January. Where is Paul Reid? I know there are patients who are not discharged on time. They have not been met to be discharged. What is the cost to the insurance company? I want an audit done to see how many patients are in hospital in a private capacity. Patients are admitted for tests that can easily be done on a day-care basis and they are in the hospital for four days.

I also want the bullying of nurses in the hospital to be addressed. How many nurses have left that hospital due to bullying by management? The number of nurses we have lost from that hospital is unbelievable. I have asked, not only on this occasion but on many occasions, for the management to step down. It failed us before and during Covid and it is failing us now. It is failing the front-line workers in this hospital.

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