It's the fifth highest level in the country outside Limerick, Cork, Waterford, and Beaumont Hospital in Dublin.
Some of the Clonmel patients have spent multiple nights on the makeshift beds in the corridors awaiting admission to the wards.
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The issue was raised in the Dáil today where Tipperary Independent TD Seamus Healy called on the Taoiseach to release monies from the 30 million Euro HSE emergency Fund to hire more staff and open extra beds.
However Enda Kenny insisted it wasn't possible to simple just secure extra staff and beds immediately but pledged to look into the reasons for the chronic overcrowding
