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

On Monday, 130 people were on trolleys in University Hospital Limerick, which was the highest number ever recorded. It was confirmed by the hospital on "Morning Ireland" that completion of the new 90-bed unit will be delayed for another year, from 2024 to 2025. Some 18,012 people were on trolleys in University Hospital Limerick in 2022. The figure will surpass 20,000 this year. The Minister for Health is clearly failing in Limerick. He has put up the white flag. The Government has abandoned the people who have to use the emergency department in Limerick. I have said that to the Tánaiste in the past. Will he confirm why there is an additional delay for the 96-bed unit? I ask him not to tell me he does not know because this is most pressing issue in the mid-west region.

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