Tackling overcrowding in hospitals could top €75m

Tackling hospital overcrowding could cost more than €75m, it emerged yesterday.

Liam Doran, the general secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, said that, clearly, more money would be needed to solve the problem.

An emergency department taskforce yesterday met to consider a draft report that is expected to recommend changes in the way the Fair Deal nursing home scheme is funded.