Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I raise the issue of University Hospital Limerick, which I have done since I was elected in 2016 probably on a weekly basis through Questions of Promised Legislation, Topical Issues, priority questions and oral questions. There is no update or let up in the situation in the hospital. Eighty-six people are on trolleys today and 1,604 people have been on trolleys already in March, the highest ever. There is an average of 1,500 each month of this year. All those are the highest ever. The staff are exhausted. There are no proper facilities for getting people through the hospital quickly. Home care packages are pulled. Step-down facilities are pulled. What will the Taoiseach do? The Minister for Health has not stepped up to the plate. It is an ongoing issue every day. The people of Limerick and the mid-west region have been abandoned by the Taoiseach and the Government. I have raised this with the Taoiseach on a number of occasions.

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