Representatives from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation will offer an update later.
535 patients are on trolleys in hospital today - down from 639 yesterday.
Today's figure includes 54 patients on trolleys at Cork University Hospital and 11 at the Mercy.
Meanwhile, the case of a Blarney pensioner who spent over two days in a chair at CUH'S Emergency Department this week is indefensible according to the head of the HSE.
The story first broke on the Neil Prendeville Show on Cork's RedFM yesterday morning when Patricia McCarthy spoke to Neil about her experience.
The HSE's interim CEO, Stephen Mulvany, says cases like Patricia's are absolutely not acceptable:
"I couldn't possibly try to defend it and I don't. It's not acceptable me. Crucially it's clearly not acceptable or the right thing for the patients. And it's definitely not acceptable to our staff- that's not the type of care our staff want to provide- they will always do their best to make people as comfortable as possible. But we all know, you couldn't walk around our Emergency Departments as myself and National Team members have in recent weeks and be anything but upset by what we see."
Patricia and her daughter Maria sat together on chairs for 57 hours at Cork University Hospital.
Maria says people who were rushed in by ambulance were also put on chairs because there weren't any trolleys left:
"I have to tell you, I had to give her two paracetamol myself because her back was sore. My own back- we were all crippled to be honest with you- there was five or six of us together at that stage because people had obviously come in by ambulance. And again, they were on just chairs. So, I mean, I think the message out there, don't think that because you come in by ambulance that you're going to get a trolley. You're just going to come in and that's it."
