Over 25 thousand people have been admitted to hospital without a bed so far this year.
Figures from the INMO already show record overcrowding for 2025.
Some 11 thousand 318 patients were admitted to hospital on trolleys last month.
The latest update from the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation's Trolleywatch figures say it was the worst February for overcrowding on record - with 250 children among those on trolleys.
University Hospital Limerick had the worst overcrowding, with just under 2 thousand patients on trolleys.
Galway University Hospital and Cork University Hospital both had just over a thousand followed by Sligo University Hospital which had 779 and St Vincent's Univeristy Hospital which had 733.
The INMO's General Secretary Phil Ní Sheaghdha says the HSE is downplaying the unacceptable situation which is leaving patients in undignified and sometimes dangerous environments.
