Question from Deputy Seán Fleming - PQ 32098-26

To ask the Minister for Health when additional emergency medical consultants will be appointed at a location (Midland Regional Hospital Portlaoise who currently have two emergency medical consultants and the average number of attendees per emergency medical consultant in previous years was 23,353 patients which is several times the national average and the lowest in the country.); and if she will make a statement on the matter.