Stephen Donnelly 'not satisfied with situation' at  University Hospital Limerick

Has been consistently one of the worst-performing facilities with regard to trolleys in the country for several years

Minister for Health Stephen Donnelly and  Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform Paschal Donohoe, at St Vincent’s University Hospital where they announced a plan to deliver 4,367 acute hospital in-patient beds by 2031. Picture: Bryan Brophy

Health Minister Stephen Donnelly has insisted ongoing problems with trolley numbers at University Hospital Limerick (UHL) are a “complete outlier”, but admitted he is “not satisfied” at the figures still being seen.

At the launch of the Government’s inpatient bed capacity expansion plan at St Vincent’s Hospital in Dublin, Mr Donnelly said that UHL “should have been seeing reductions now” in its trolley figures but that for “various reasons” the totals being seen have instead increased by about 40%.