Michael McNamara (Clare, Independent) | Oireachtas source

A month ago, I raised the issue of overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick, UHL. The Taoiseach told me there was an expert group in place there to deal with overcrowding at the time and to develop recommendations into the future. I asked when it would report, to whom it would report and what were its terms of reference. I asked in particular whether the existing one model 4 hospital and the three model 2 hospitals were adequate. The Taoiseach did not know. He told me would come back to me, but he did not. I wrote to him since. I still have no reply. Today, a month later, there are 105 people on trolleys in Limerick. That figure was 81 when I raised the issue a month ago. What is going on in UHL? Does the Taoiseach even know?

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