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Wednesday 21 October 2020
Over 1,000 children are expected to wait for a bed this year.
The figure of 601 is just short of the high of 612 patients on trolleys at the beginning of January.
The Department of Health says that Varadkar has been kept abreast of the situation.
The INMO says it’s like “Groundhog Day”.
The INMO said today that the Major Emergency Plan should have been implemented at the hospital today, with 47 people on trolleys in the Emergency Department this morning.
Five hospitals increased by between 75% to 187% in comparison to the same period last year.
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The INMO has called on the HSE to act immediately.
Reilly was challenged by Fianna Fáil TD Billy Kelleher in the Dáil today after it emerged almost 400 people were on trolleys across the country in one day this week.
There are 374 patients on trolleys in Ireland today – the highest figure since April last year.
The number of people on trolleys rose 106 per cent between August 2007 and 2011.
THE IRISH FARMERS Association has urged Irish MEPs to vote to ban words traditionally linked to meat products from being used on vegetarian alternatives.
The European Parliament is to vote this week on the terminology used for plant-based meat and dairy substitutes.
Amendments put forward would restrict the naming of such products so that they could not use terms normally associated with meat products.
One amendment would curtail the use of terms such as ‘steak’, ‘sausage’, ‘escalope’, ‘burger’ or ‘hamburger’ on products that do not exclusively contain meat.
The IFA has written to MEPs urging them to accept both amendments to protect Irish consumers and the agricultural industry here.
IFA President Tim Cullinan said yesterday that dairy products or plant-based meat branded with ‘real’ meat descriptions is “deliberately misleading to our consumers and undermines our industry.”
What do you think: Should vegetarian foods be allowed use words like ‘steak’ and ‘burger’?
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