Harney makes overcrowding pledge at opening of new facility

Tánaiste Mary Harney today insisted overcrowding at Accident and Emergency wards would ease in the months ahead as she opened a new facility capable of catering for over 40,000 such attendances each year.

The Minister for Health said things were going in the right direction as she opened a €60m building – the centrepiece of the €250m redevelopment project at St Vincent’s University Hospital in south Dublin.