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- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Éamon Ó Cuív: ...all evening on this but I hope the Minister of State gets the message. We are in a crisis and it is only the beginning of winter. I hate to think what faces us over this winter, particularly if there is a flu outbreak.
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Margaret Murphy O'Mahony: ...have so many people been waiting on trolleys. Never before have so many old people been left waiting on trolleys for more than 24 hours. This is only the start of the winter. We have not had a flu epidemic or major crisis, yet there is an overcrowding crisis. What will it be like if there is a problem further down the road? There are ways to deal with this, including addressing...
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Bobby Aylward: ...to take the seriousness of this situation on board, given that we are not even near the end of the winter yet. We have another month to go during which there may be sickness, such as that caused by flu epidemics. The conditions in hospitals will get worse unless and until we do something about them.
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Michael Harty: ...the IMO and INMO, 75 of whom are in Limerick Regional Hospital. According to the HSE's TrolleyGAR figures, there are 39% more people on trolleys today than on this day last year. We do not have a flu epidemic and are not yet in midwinter. As Deputy Kelly said, the mid-west is under-resourced by 20% compared to catchment areas of a similar nature. This is a €40 million...
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Alan Kelly: ...be beyond the capacity of the body politic to do so. I say with great sincerity that the Minister is going to wish that the election was this month. Unfortunately for the general public, if we have a flu epidemic, or even if we do not, it will be hell. It is already hell where I live, so it will be an even worse form of hell. The situation is that bad. I do not say this with any...
- Hospital Overcrowding: Motion [Private Members] (20 Nov 2019)
Simon Harris: ...initiatives at local level including additional staff to improve patient experience time, improve senior clinical decision making, reduce length of stay and facilitate weekend discharges; additional aids and appliances to help get elderly people in particular back home; additional home support hours; the implementation of frail intervention therapy teams to help avoid and reduce admissions...