John Brady TD

Not only is this shocking, it’s also totally unacceptable. Last Friday, a Wicklow man went to St. Vincent’s A&E after a suspected mini-stroke. He was seen, then sent home and told not to worry over the weekend, just come back on Monday. He did exactly that. Yesterday morning he returned as instructed, and then he waited. Hour after hour. By midnight, he was still there, trapped in an A&E that was completely overwhelmed. No beds. Not even a trolley. Just a chair, and then put in a shower room. Alongside four other men and a woman, all patients, all left waiting because there was nowhere else to put them. This is not care. This is not dignity. It is totally unacceptable. And it is happening now, under Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil.