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appreciate that. I acknowledge that he has raised it, but I cannot speak about individual cases. It is acknowledged that acute hospital waiting lists are too long, and many patients are waiting an unacceptably long time for care. The Government is focused on having a public healthcare service … Health that it has approved both outpatient and inpatient and day case initiatives for orthopaedics, which will facilitate treatment for patients on these waiting lists in Children’s Health Ireland. As the Deputy is aware, the final report of the developmental dysplasia of the hip audit was published

Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the scoliosis waiting list for surgery at CHI hospitals at present; and the steps she is taking to reduce waiting lists. [51548/25

blow to them. With geopolitical uncertainty threatening foreign direct investment, now is the time to double down on supporting domestic industries. Hospitality and personal service remain among the largest indigenous employers in Ireland. We welcome the VAT reduction but will continue to fight for its swift implementation … childcare. Where are the election promises? They are not there. It promised false promises. On healthcare, the promises ring hollow. Waiting lists grow. Services are stretched. Rural hospitals are under threat. We need investment in community care, GP access and mental health services, not just headline figures

respite places for them. We have few respite places in Kerry. We need to address those matters. There are waiting lists for people to get into Tralee hospital, into the district hospital in Killarney, into the facilities in Kenmare, Dingle and Cahersiveen and into St. Columbanus Home

recommendations from completed reviews, upcoming reports, spinal services and the commissioning of the new children's hospital. It will continue to strongly invest in services and in tackling waiting lists, particularly for spinal procedures, by increasing capacity and substantial resources, and several initiatives are under way to improve

money we put in. Beaumont Hospital has reduced the number of people waiting on trolleys by 30% despite a nearly 6% increase in attendances. In community services, I am aware that families face real challenges accessing community care. Therapy waiting lists show stark regional differences. The west … waiting list in St. James's by over 18%, significantly reduced the plastics waiting list, which means breast reconstruction for 21% more people than had been the case before, and reduced the pain management list in James's by 81%. It is very important. In 2026, we will

this broken promise. Harvey was left suffering on a waiting list to have an operation for 33 months - not under four months, as the Tánaiste promised. In those 33 months, Harvey was constantly in and out of hospital as the curvature of his spine increased, putting pressure … they watched their beautiful boy deteriorate in front of their eyes. While Harvey suffered, CHI for some inexplicable reason removed him from the waiting list with no explanation to his family. They have not received an explanation. Harvey Morrison Sherratt died on 27 July this year

Lady of Lourdes Hospital in Drogheda is completely overwhelmed. It was never designed to cope with the massive population growth that has been seen across County Louth, County Meath and the north-east region. Sadly, elective surgeries are sometimes delayed. Waiting lists are growing. Patients are left waiting

risen by over 40%. On the CAMHS waiting list, 620 children are currently waiting more than a year for access and 4,437 are waiting for access to an appointment. In 2023, Ireland had 30.7 psychiatric hospital beds per 100,000 inhabitants, compared with an EU average … adult units they end up getting separated from their babies. CAMHS is a huge area that needs massive resources. The waiting lists are increasing and the staffing is going down. This needs to be addressed. With regard to Traveller community mental health, it is some indictment that members

service. It delivers a recipe for deepening catastrophe that sees our hospitals overcrowded, accident and emergency departments under huge pressure every day, a year-round trolley crisis and hundreds of thousands of people on waiting lists, waiting just like Harvey did. The Disability Federation of Ireland has described

investment will deliver: an increase in acute hospital capacity of at least 220 beds and the expansion of diagnostic services; at least 280 community beds, continued investment in the community nursing units refurbishment programme and reductions in community waiting lists; an additional 1.7 million home support hours

them think to themselves that nobody will be able to see them anyway. That has a knock-on effect on the long waiting lists we see across the State. I want to raise with the Minister of State examples of two people in my constituency. One constituent … made representations in respect of this and he was put on the cross-Border medical care list. At that stage, he had been waiting for 12 or 14 weeks to get the biopsy. Nothing happened, though. On 1 September, we finally made more representations in relation

mixture of housing and there is no analysis of that solution to the amount of people on a waiting list. In Galway city, the wait is between 15 and 20 years. In Galway, as we speak, 64 patients are on trolleys. There are 40 in the accident … about the billions of euro going into health but ignore the fact we have failed to train enough people to work in our hospitals and are reliant on agency staff, which cost much more. The Minister of State is putting his head down and I do not blame

months, which is compared to 24% at the same time last year. There is, therefore, some progress being made in reducing waiting times, especially longer waiting times. It is supported by a couple of different initiatives. The dedicated GP referral pathway supports the appropriate prioritisation of urgent patients … services in particular. I have great confidence in him. I have also commissioned an audit of governance and equity in patient access and waiting list management, which has a very important qualitative element to ensure the patient and staff experience is also captured

good at their jobs working in positions but they are not accessible because they are drowning and firefighting due to these waiting lists. Often, they are one of very few in a team that is not fully resourced. Overall, this Government’s legacy is one of heartbreak … multi-annual funding and long-term planning. Where the Government fails to deliver, people suffer. Nowhere is that more evidenced than in the waiting lists for psychology, CAMHS, primary care services, specialist services and acute services. I ask the Government to please learn from its past mistakes. Publish

disciplines compared with December 2023, it is really a case of running to a standstill. In regard to the length of the waiting list, I hear what the Minister of State said. Some regions have upped their game for a variety of reasons and other areas have … children waiting to be seen. Deputy Clarke referred to the more than 23,000 people waiting on the psychology waiting list with over 11,000 waiting more than a year. Last week we heard from the Minister for Health that there will now be special interventions with regard

sincere sympathies to Harvey Morrison Sherratt's parents, Gillian and Stephen, and all families impacted by CHI's scoliosis and spinal surgery waiting list. This is a deeply serious issue, one on which we are all united across the Dáil in wanting to resolve. Simon, the Government … economy. What has Aontú delivered for Ireland and for Mayo? Not one house, not one more road, not one job, not one hospital bed - nothing. Deputy Paul Lawless has delivered zero. Aontú's latest attempt to grab the headlines is another political stunt. It has no substance

quite shocking that it will take 14 months for a question asked in September 2024, about how many children have been taken off waiting lists without their parents knowing, to be answered. It points again to the dysfunction. I welcome that the Minister has met with parents about … moment. My understanding is that it is not spending it because that money has been assigned to fit out the new children's hospital

understood. There is a lot of work going on to try to get that scheme going. Deputy O'Sullivan raised the elective hospital. I put that back on the map at the time. I am going to pursue this. We have the site, and likewise in Galway. There … well. We will continue to focus to get more of those done, and more quickly. There are quite a number on the list that we need to get done. Now, with the allocation that has been given to education, we will certainly keep the pressure on to complete

persons and their carers are hospitalised. It is important to note that carers save the State about €20 billion each year, preventing avoidable hospital admissions and enabling many people to remain in their homes safely for longer periods. In the run-up to the last general election … break the law that requires the completion of an assessment of need within six months of referral. There are 16,000 children on waiting lists currently and that is estimated to increase to 20,000 by year end. There are over 40,000 on waiting lists for various

insertion of unauthorised springs into children, hundreds of children going through operations that were not necessary and other hundreds of children on waiting lists. We were told not all of this in the past tense; much is still in the present tense. CHI has descended into dysfunction over … still not published. Many of them castigate the continuous disaster within that organisation. In 2017, Simon Harris promised that no child would wait longer than four months for an operation. This was not an exceptional promise. It was a promise to implement an international norm. Simon Harris failed

both multidisciplinary crisis response teams and drop-in Solace cafes. Initial findings are indicating that they are significantly reducing emergency presentations to acute hospitals by up to 20%. On youth mental health, while we have made a lot of progress there are some areas where I would like … much of this focused on children and young people. A priority for me is to improve access to community CAMHS and to reduce waiting lists. Throughout this year I have been carrying out a series of visits to all HSE regional areas to impress on the teams that

Monaghan. Deputy Barry Ward - To discuss the progression of the Sutton to Sandycove, S2S, cycleway. Deputy Naoise Ó Cearúil - To discuss paediatric surgery waiting lists affecting families in Kildare North. Deputy Pa Daly - To discuss the north Kerry CAMHS review. Deputy Malcolm Byrne - To discuss ongoing human rights … second quarter of this year. Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - To discuss the need for an increase in funding for the LauraLynn children's hospital. The matters raised by Deputies Ó Murchú, Carthy, Ó Cearúil, Gould and Gannon have been selected for discussion

could be said that the only election promise on which the Government has made good immediately was the wrongheaded VAT cut for hospitality and hairdressing, which is a narrowing of our tax base, with no evidence it will have any positive impact on businesses, workers or consumer prices … most impacted by the failure to act by this Government, including children who have additional needs, children with autism, who are on long waiting lists for services and places. There are 5,000 children without a home and many more children in poverty. There is an uncertain future

waiting for longer than six months, never mind four months, for their life-changing surgery. Countless more children have been entirely removed from waiting lists because they have been left for so long that their condition has become inoperable. Precious children have lost not only their mobility … independent inquiry. Despite the fact that he refuses to accept it, the Tánaiste did sign off on the contract for the children's hospital. We learned today that the 16th completion date will come and go. Construction started on the hospital the Tánaiste signed off on ten years

Health the number of public patients in each of the years 2021 to 2024 and to date in 2025, on waiting lists in University Hospital Limerick who have received care via third party insourcing activity, in tabular form; the extent to which this activity has reduced waiting lists

Deputy Peadar Tóibín asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the scoliosis waiting list for surgery at CHI hospitals at present; and the steps she is taking to reduce waiting lists. [51548/25

Deputy Martin Kenny asked the Minister for Health if a dermatology consultant has been appointed to deal with the enormous waiting list in Sligo University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52013/25

Health for an update on an appointment for a person (details supplied) who has been on a waiting list to see a vascular surgeon at Tallaght University Hospital for several years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52342/25

care assistants in the Clonmel and south Tipperary area; the immediate measures being taken to address the waiting lists for home support services for older persons and those requiring post-hospital care.; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54927/25