Consultant reacts to Minister for Health’s comment on emergency departments

10/11/2025 15 min
  Consultant reacts to Minister for Health’s comment on emergency departments

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Episode Synopsis

Minister for Health, Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, was asked on the Anton Savage Show on Newstalk on October 18th about popping up in emergency departments unannounced, she stated: “That’s the way I’m doing it, if they don’t like it, they can leave”.One consultant who was not encouraged by the Minister’s words was Dr Lisa Cunningham, Consultant in Emergency Medicine at Mayo University Hospital. She joins Ciara Doherty to discuss…