As more than 21,000 patients have been on hospital trolleys waiting for a bed so far this year, the Oireachtas Health Committee has been hearing today from four health unions about the overcrowding issues that continue to be an issue in Irish hospitals. 

Kieran was joined on The Hard Shoulder by Ann Noonan, senior staff nurse at University Hospital Limerick and INMO executive council member and Jason Van De Velde, Prehospital Emergency Medicine Physician at West Cork Rapid Response...

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