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Saturday, that is 900 out of a total of 2,700. However, hospitals are still conducting fewer scopes than they were in 2019 when all services were provided between Monday and Friday. Waiting lists did not reduce during 2024 but they have reduced this year. The system … Friday. How is the Minister ensuring that hospitals are preventing the misuse of public funds and controlling spending and waiting lists initiatives? What is the breakdown of weekend hospital activity between the new public consulting contract and the fee paying service clinics? What action does Minister intend

public and the private sectors. We are using the National Treatment Purchase Fund to avail of the private hospital system to help clear waiting lists. There is that inextricable link now between the public and private health services. The transparency of the sponsor must be to the forefront

available capacity in the public and private systems to ensure that patients have access to the care they need. The waiting list action plan 2025 includes targeting the delivery of additional capacity in the public and private systems through a co-ordinated approach … understanding, MOU, between the NTPF and the relevant public hospital. Under the MOU, the public hospital confirms that any such work is additional work over and above core hospital activity and is specifically carried out to reduce waiting lists. In early April I requested that

there was underutilised capacity, that is, as the report states, other people in the hospital could have held surgeries at an earlier period but did not due to the waiting list management process, that is very serious. In advance of receiving the insourcing report, we have mandated

South of Ireland and depend on getting through the waiting list, many of them would go blind before their cataracts were removed, and that is a sad reflection. What we see happening up there is that the hospitals work all around the clock. They work the seven days

Health Ireland, CHI. However, in the past month details of an unpublished report conducted on the clinical department of CHI at Crumlin hospital has been put into the public domain. One of the revelations in the report was a finding of several inappropriate and unnecessary NTPF-funded Saturday … hundreds of appointments for patients who did not need to see him. He then placed these patients on his own waiting lists, which resulted in patients waiting twice as long as they would have otherwise. The report states that 95% of those patients could have been accommodated during

funded posts during the remainder of 2025. We will deliver faster access to care. Funding of €420 million has been allocated for the waiting list action plan 2025. We will continue to review capacity in emergency departments. We will increase the number of public-only consultants in emergency … since the start of 2020, more affordable healthcare through reductions in the drugs payment scheme threshold to €80, removal of hospital inpatient charges, extension of the eligibility for free GP cards for all children under eight and to all earning no more than the median income, State-funded

They are now completely disenfranchised from the communities they need to access. There are no public transport links to hospitals, including children's hospitals. Regardless of whether it is the C3, which terminates in Maynooth via Leixlip, or the C4, which terminates in Celbridge, what we have here … young people, would the Minister as part of the next budget consider putting €100 on the Leap card for anyone on a waiting list for a driving test for more than ten or 12 weeks? This would give people an incentive to use whatever public transport is available

David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the total amount of money spent in 2022, 2023 and 2024 in public hospitals on hospital waiting list initiatives, broken down by year and by hospital, the number of consultants paid through such initiatives, if the money came from the NTPF

Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the total money spent on in-sourcing of health care in public hospitals to reduce waiting lists from 2015 to date, broken down by year, by hospital, and whether the funding came from a hospital directly or from the NTPF

number of procedures carried out as a result of a blitz or insourcing of services at weekends as part of waiting lists initiatives in public hospitals in 2022, 2023 and 2024, broken down by hospital and by day; and if she will make a statement on the matter

Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the amount of money paid to private hospitals via the NTPF from the outsourcing of waiting list elective in-patient and day-case surgeries at Letterkenny University Hospital, for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. [29148/25

used by public hospitals to provide consultant weekend cover and-or waiting list initiatives since 2015; to list the names of the companies and the funds provided to the companies, broken down by year and by hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31010/25

Deputy Brian Stanley asked the Minister for Health the number of anaesthesiologists will be working in James Connolly Memorial Hospital to reduce the two year long waiting list for treatments requiring general anaesthetic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29754/25

David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of HR reports, investigations or reviews carried out at CHI hospitals into the use of NTPF-funded waiting list initiatives since 2019; to outline the date they commenced and were completed; and if she will make a statement

Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the total money spent on waiting list initiatives since 2015 broken down by year, by hospital and by funding source; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29947/25

review routine blood test results remotely and communicate outcomes via phone or post, in order to reduce unnecessary hospital visits, alleviate car parking pressures, and shorten outpatient waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30016/25

Deputy Donna McGettigan asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for the regional endometriosis hub based at University Hospital Limerick; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30288/25

Deputy Paul McAuliffe asked the Minister for Health to provide waiting lists and times for ten-day emergency oncology appointments at the Mater Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34883/25

payment made to consultants for carrying out appointments, procedures or surgeries on weekends as part of waiting list initiatives at CHI from 2010 to date, broken down by year, by hospital and by amount earned, by consultants in each year in bands (details supplied); and if she will

Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the process and criteria used by public hospitals in selecting consultants to carry out insourcing of care at weekends, blitzes, or other waiting list initiatives; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29702/25

Health the amount of money earned by public consultants worrying at weekends on waiting list initiatives including ones funded by the NTPF from 2010 to date, broken down by year, by hospital, by speciality and by amounts earned in each year in bands (details supplied

companies used by CHI to provide consultant weekend cover and-or waiting list initiatives since 2019; to list the names of the companies and the funds provided to the companies, broken down by year and by hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31009/25

reports that CHI orthopaedic surgeons performed hip surgeries at University Hospital Galway and Cork in recent years, who approved sending CHI orthopaedic doctors to Galway and Cork; whether this was part of an official waiting-list initiative or NTPF arrangement; if the same oversight and patient-selection standards

Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health the number of children on urology waiting lists at CHI since 2019; the length of time they are waiting in the following bands: 0-3 months, 3-6 months, 6-9 months, 9 months to a year, 1 year … years and greater than 2 years, further broken down by month, by year and by hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [31025/25