Accident and emergency debate amendment
Senator O’Brien presses an amendment requiring a same-day debate with the Health Minister on preventing patients, especially elderly people, from spending two days on trolleys; the amendment defeats agreement to the Order of Business.
Senator Darragh O'Brien has proposed an amendment to the Order of Business, "That a debate with the Minister for Health on his plans to ensure no person, and especially no elderly person, is left on a trolley in an accident and emergency department for two days be taken today." Is the amendment being pressed?
Comment on this
Question put: "That the Order of Business be agreed to."
Do you agree with this result?