Matt Shanahan (Waterford, Independent)
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1066. To ask the Minister for Health when the emergency department task force last met given the present difficulties with hospital overcrowding; if an organisation (details supplied) has called for such a meeting; the latest initiatives to be considered by the next emergency task force meeting; the measures that are being introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14947/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The Emergency Department Taskforce (EDTF) is an advisory body comprising representatives from the HSE, Department of Health, staff representative organisations, practitioners and patient representatives, and is co-chaired by the INMO and the HSE.

The EDTF last met on the 18th of October 2021. It is envisaged that the next EDTF meeting will take place on 28th March 2022.

As the latest initiatives to be considered are a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.