{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/67c5d757b48a8f157c1f9076/69fc5713669475c107a124e9?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Minister for Health Says Drogheda Hospital \"Leading the Way\" in Combatting Overcrowding Issues - 07/05/2026","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/67c5d757b48a8f157c1f9076/1778144450281-8684cad1-1802-4507-ada8-5253ba25e534.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>The Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation are holding their Annual Delegate Conference in the Fairways Hotel in Dundalk<em> </em>today. &nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>Over 50 motions will be debated on safe staffing, cost-of-living, burnout, assaults. Emergency motions will be debated on cost-of-living measures.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>The Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, will address delegates, and Minister MacNeill joined us on The Agenda this morning to talk to us some more about this.</p><p><br></p><p>Minister Caroll MacNeill addressed the issue of overcrowding in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda. </p><p><br></p><p>We also discussed the “scoping exercise” into convicted sex offender and former Louth hospital consultant Michael Shine, which is expected to take up to 16 weeks - Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill told the Dáil this week that the total number of those impacted is believed to be “in the high hundreds and it ranges across a huge age span”.&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>We alsio discussed endometriosis care in Ireland, after our interview earlier this week with Amie Berns, who is now housebound as a result of the debilitating case of endometriosis that she is living with. </p><p><br></p><p><br></p>","author_name":"lmfm "}