Hospital Overcrowding
Overcrowding was to end in response to COVID-19. It hasn’t. It has to.
Overcrowding was to end in response to COVID-19. It hasn’t. It has to.
At today’s COVID Committee, I asked the GAA, IRFU and FAI about the economic and social impact of COVID-19 on their organisations and the wider community.
80 people on trolleys at University Hospital Limerick on a day when we learn that only 23 additional critical care beds have been delivered nationally since March and publication of the HSE Winter Plan is delayed for a further week. The State must step up, not just individual citizens.
I was happy to receive confirmation from the Minister for Agriculture that farmers would now receive monthly updates on their stocking density so as to be able to calculate their reductions required for BEAM (Beef Exceptional Aid Measure).