Following any 999 or 112 ambulance call a patient must be transferred to the nearest emergency department. Twelve months ago HIQA recommended that patients be transferred to minor injury units, where appropriate, rather than bringing them to emergency departments. No. 98 on the list of promised legislation is the health reform Bill. Can we have this issue looked at under that Bill? The policy is forcing older people to lie on trolleys in emergency departments for hours when they could be treated at their local hospital.

I know that the Taoiseach tasked Deputy Martin Heydon to produce a report on flooding on the River Shannon. Can that report be placed in the Oireachtas Library?

It was a good report, on which Deputy Martin Heydon did quite a deal of work. I have the report which he gave me some time ago. I do not have a problem in having it placed in the Oireachtas Library and I am quite sure the Deputy would not either.

On the ambulance service, this has been an issue from a union point of view for quite a long time. It is a problem in that a patient from Shrule in need of an ambulance will be brought to Galway. Obviously, the ambulance will have to wait. If the patient was to go in the other direction to Mayo General Hospital, he or she might be admitted and attended to in a greatly reduced time. The regulation or practice is that they be taken to the nearest hospital. Obviously, it might not be the most appropriate, as the Deputy has pointed out. It is an issue of reform that will be looked at. It is a work practice.