# Are people being served properly in emergency departments?

An episode of [The Hard Shoulder](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1155118264), 22 Oct 2026, 8:29.

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New figures from the HSE show that more than 70,000 people did not wait, or left before completing their treatment, in emergency departments during the first seven months of this year. Chairperson of the Oireachtas Committee on Health and Social Democrats TD Pádraig Rice obtained the figures, and joins Seán Defoe to discuss.

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