Overcrowding crisis likely to continue 'for a number of years'

Interim CEO Stephen Mulvany apologised to the public for the crisis and said even one person on a trolley is too many. Picture: Andy Gibson.

The hospital overcrowding crisis is likely to continue “for a number of years” before reforms underway now take effect, the HSE said on Wednesday.

Senior HSE management attended a special sitting of the Oireachtas Health Committee focused on the crisis which saw 931 patients unable to get a hospital bed on January 3.