The Government has no excuse not to efficiently and properly fund the health service according to a local opposition TD.
Sinn Fein's Claire Kerrane has called for those in power to use the country's financial surplus to once and for all, fix the health service.
Over 5 thousand patients in the Shannonside Northern Sound region left emergency departments without being seen in the first half of this year.
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Deputy Kerrane argues that the HSE is spending billions on agency staff instead of fixing the issues that are causing nurses and doctors to emigrate.
The Roscommon/Galway Deputy says increasing public capacity in hospitals needs to be the first step:
