No joy at A&E talks with TD

A NEW patients’ lobby group is disappointed the Tánaiste and Minister for Health Mary Harney has no quick-fix solution to the accident and emergency crisis.

Janette Byrne of Patients Together said it met the Tánaiste yesterday to highlight the horrendous conditions patients endure in busy A & E departments.

“We’re not willing to put up with it. It can’t go on. People are suffering,” she said, on a day when 157 patients were lying on trolleys in over-stretched A&Es throughout the country.