Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I raised this issue with the Tánaiste last week. University Hospital Letterkenny has a serious crisis. The representatives of nurses, doctors and paramedics have spoken about the impossible conditions they are being asked to work in. There is one nurse for every 20 patients. Some patients have been waiting between ten and 14 hours in ambulances outside the emergency department, including recently a 77-year-old man in a very serious condition. I am asking the Taoiseach, as I asked the Tánaiste, to ensure that the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, gets up to Donegal urgently to meet the organisations representing the staff, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, Fórsa, SIPTU, and meets the hospital management to address once and for all the health crisis in Donegal which has arisen due to neglect and underfunding.

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