Richard Boyd Barrett
Question:497. Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett asked the Minister for Health the number of patients who were waiting for admission on trolleys in hospital emergency departments in March 2016; the way in which this number has changed, by monthly average, and by hospital, in the past 5 years; the frequency with which in this period ambulances have been impeded from responding to emergency call-outs because of delays in transferring their patients to emergency departments as a result of overcrowding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6748/16]
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