INMO: 'It shouldn't take a personal visit' for politicians to know what EDs are like

The general secretary of the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) Phil Ní Sheaghdha has said it should not take a personal visit to the emergency department for the political system to know that citizens should not be subjected to lengthy waiting times.

She was responding to comments by Fine Gael TD Kate O’Connell at an Oireachtas committee meeting on health on Wednesday where she said the conditions in a hospital emergency department she attended with her child in recent days