Measures to tackle hospital overcrowding are topping the agenda at a high-level meeting today.
The Emergency Department Taskforce meeting was one of the measures announced after a meeting between the HSE and the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation (INMO) last week.
555 people are on trolleys across the country today, a reduction on last Wednesday's record high of 677.
Meanwhile the HSE has confirmed that all doctors will be paid for all overtime worked, after junior doctors in Connolly Hospital in Blanchardstown were told they wouldn't be.
Nicole Gernon reports:
The INMO says more than 2,400 people were affected over the course of the week.
The situation prompted the meeting between the INMO and HSE management on Friday .
A number of measures were decided upon - including meetings between hospital managers and INMO representatives locally.
They also agreed the Emergency Department Task Force should meet today.
It will consider short and long term measures to deal with the crisis and measures to ensure the same situation doesn't happen again.
