Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I agree it is not acceptable that elderly people would be sitting in ambulances waiting to get into hospital. Effectively the ambulance becomes a remote bed which, for all sorts of reasons, is not the way the system should work. I am glad to hear that the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, was in Donegal speaking to practitioners and I expect he will come back to Deputy MacLochlainn with an answer in relation to those discussions but I will certainly remind him of that.

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