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behalf of the Minister for Health, Deputy Carroll MacNeill. I acknowledge the importance of addressing the long waiting lists. Many patients are still waiting too long for hospital appointments and treatments and the Government is conscious of the burden that this places on patients and their families … national network of surgical hubs to meet medium-term demand. With an initial focus on the longest waiting patients, this surgical hub will have a significant impact on waiting lists through the delivery of additional activity for high-volume, low complexity day cases across 12 specialties, including orthopaedics

waiting list for ultrasounds in the hospital's group is the largest it has ever been, with 5,000 outpatient appointments needed at the moment and 35 referrals a day coming into the Louth hospital. The total number of ultrasounds done in Louth County Hospital … their HSE contracts. The public waiting list continues to grow and the outsourcing of ultrasounds to private clinics where the HSE is paying a huge amount of money grows also. Instead of putting in jeopardy the ultrasound service at Louth County Hospital, the HSE should be developing

reform we need to bring into the health service, if we are really interested in reform and dealing with waiting lists, is to build the elective public-only hospitals. That would be the biggest game-changer. It would be reform with a big R for a number … nurse who left her job in Castlebar to move to Waterford about three months ago and is on a waiting list to get a job in a public hospital. There is still no offer of a contract. She is one of many people due to the strict embargo

health service needs, from an acute hospital perspective, is delivering the elective hospitals. If you really want to deal with waiting lists, then build the four elective hospitals as quickly as possible. I guarantee that that will give us capacity to deal with lots of the planned procedures

appointment time. There is some glimmer of hope with regard to outsourcing theatre capacity in Cork to private hospitals over the coming months to cater for the long waiting lists while we wait for the surgical hub to open in CUH in quarter 3. I would encourage … Minister of State to engage with the HSE and ask it to facilitate some private capacity in private hospitals to deal with the emergent outpatient waiting list. It is chronic. To have 7,444 people waiting in Cork for a basic outpatient appointment for orthopaedics is unacceptable

remaining time to deal with the other issue that came into the public domain regarding the potential manipulation of public waiting lists. Again, I have a high regard for consultants, who do a fantastic job. I am on record as supporting the Government in putting in place … public hospitals. However, I have been concerned for some time about the use of public money for insourcing in hospitals to deal with waiting lists. It is necessary and we know we need waiting list initiatives because waiting times are too high. However, I have been raising concerns

step to achieving that is fully understanding the current position. Implementation of the NTPF’s national radiology diagnostic waiting list management protocol by all hospitals is the step to ensuring that patients are administratively managed in a safe, timely, fair and equitable manner while waiting, as well … waiting list information will enable full analysis of the diagnostic waiting lists and provide a more complete understanding of how many patients are waiting, how long they are waiting and the specific services they are waiting for. This year, the productivity and savings task force published an action

concerning. Under initiatives to reduce waiting lists, the HSE can outsource to private hospitals under the surgical services framework and the private provider framework. The HSE looks internally within and across hospital sites to deliver insourcing pathways. As part of the waiting list action plan, there … focus on deploying additional weekend, evening and out-of-hours activity to reduce overall waiting lists. I understand that at the request of the Minister for Health, the CEO of the HSE has initiated a detailed survey of all insourcing activity in the HSE which will be assigned

reductions in outpatient waiting lists and improved health facilities, such as the National Forensic Mental Hospital in Portrane, hospital extensions and new primary care centres and community nursing units across the country; — a reduction of approximately 48 per cent in the weighted average waiting time for outpatient appointments … delivery of hundreds of projects under the rural and urban regeneration and development funds; significant reductions in outpatient waiting lists and improved health facilities such as hospital extensions, new primary care centres and community nursing units across the country; the abolition of inpatient charges, the introduction

vague with no costings or timelines. It means the continuation of the housing and homelessness crisis, the cost-of-living crisis, hospital overcrowding, long health waiting lists, a broken disability service and the continuation of the health recruitment embargo, the so-called pay and numbers strategy. Everybody agrees … been reneged on. The section on disability services is weak, vague and non-specific. There is no proposal to eliminate the long waiting lists for therapy services. Indeed, the programme foresees the continuation of the long backlogs. It continues to decide to deprive children with additional needs

also support additional contingency measures and the scoping exercise referred to by the Minister of State, linking in with the Dublin hospital because we have waiting lists. I alluded to the fact 1,800 children, mostly under the age of five are on the waiting list, including Rory

could contest the numbers in relation to the ultrasound waiting lists at Louth County Hospital. I have been told they are considerably higher than ten. At this point, we do not have that one person who was actually working 100% on this and doing what is absolutely necessary

costings and no timelines. That means a continuation of the housing and homelessness crisis, the cost-of-living crisis, hospital overcrowding, huge health waiting lists, a broken disability service and the health recruitment embargo, known as "pay and numbers". The housing and homelessness crisis is the most fundamental

transgender healthcare to adults in Ireland and that is the self-appointed national gender service based in St. Columcille's Hospital in Loughlinstown. It has wait lists over ten years long and sees fewer than 160 people a year. The NGS and its model of care were … Catalonia, which has an informed consent model in primary care that has been successfully in use since 2012, with a 36-day waiting list and 71% of adults receiving HRT on the first appointment, compared with the decade-long waiting list trans people face in Ireland

There were 233 children on a waiting list for spinal surgery at Children’s Health Ireland, CHI, hospitals at the end of February. Of those children, 43 who had been approved for surgery had been waiting more than six months and 15 of those had been kept waiting … reports so-called experimental spinal surgeries and unnecessary surgeries. We know about the lengthening waiting lists and doubts about so many aspects of the move to the national children’s hospital. Some commentators are suggesting since yesterday that problems at CHI start and end with the actions

which has a six-year-old boy who has been diagnosed with undescended testes. He has been on the waiting list to be seen in Cork University Hospital even though he is classed as urgent. He is in a lot of pain, which is causing him to fall … wanted her son to remain on the waiting list. We have a constituent who is in his mid-50s and caring for his elderly parents at home. They both have dementia. Recently, his mother was in hospital and, upon discharge, she required a wheelchair and commode at home

being compounded by a deep sense of betrayal and abandonment by successive Governments. The scoliosis waiting list action plan 2017 was jointly developed by the HSE and children's hospital group and has failed to deliver, despite the fact that as part of the proposal to address … spinal fusion waiting list a number of children were identified as being clinically appropriate to have their scoliosis surgery in other hospitals, such as the Mater, Cappagh and Temple Street. I would like to know how many additional nurses and consultants have started in the service since then

workforce in recent years. More people than ever are being treated by our healthcare service. Progress is being made on waiting lists. We have more people in hospital beds than ever before and more people who are getting hospital beds than ever before. When it comes to scoliosis … this Government. In recent years - this is included in the 40% I have mentioned - €30 million has been allocated to help tackle waiting lists for spinal procedures. Last year alone, some 513 spinal procedures were completed, which is a 10% increase on the year before. Of course

have their breast checks done. The HSE and BreastCheck are failing too many people, with patients on trolleys, years-long waiting lists, delayed diagnoses, overcrowding in hospitals and families just left in limbo right across the whole of the HSE, not just in BreastCheck. Just in my locality

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

Under the previous Minister for Health, third-party insourcing was introduced and used by the HSE to reduce waiting lists and carry out additional procedures in public hospitals outside normal hours. Now, providers are being told the system will come to an end in June, despite no alternative

from Blacksod and he was recently diagnosed with a brain tumour. Since 17 September, he has been waiting in Mayo University Hospital for a transfer to Beaumont Hospital. He is listed under a consultant in Beaumont who has accepted the transfer but Beaumont is waiting to have

situation is beyond alarming now. There are no orthodontists in Clare. Patients are referred to St. Camillus Hospital, Limerick, and languish on the waiting list there. Recently, a constituent of mine was told her daughter would have to wait from three to four years to have braces fitted … dentists was taking on new patients with medical cards. That is another of the Government's failures. Another is chronic overcrowding at University Hospital Limerick, which is also impacting on this problem. Some dental patients require anaesthesia for extractions, and when the hospital is forced by overcrowding

Children's Hospital Group have confirmed that they are committed to ensuring that no child will be waiting over four months". I emphasise that the then Minister for Health said that he would be monitoring the waiting lists not on a monthly basis but "on a weekly basis

Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of waiting lists at University Hospital Kerry, broken down by speciality, in each of the years 2015 to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23535/25

Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health the number of patients on University Hospital Galway’s waiting list for the pain clinic; the length of time they have been waiting; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10455/25

Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Health the current inpatient waiting lists in University Hospital Kerry, by specialty, in each of the years 2019 to date, in tabular form. [1885/25

Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Health the current outpatient waiting lists in University Hospital Kerry, by specialty, in each of the years 2019 to date, in tabular form. [1996/25

Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on waiting lists at Cork University Hospital for CT, MRI and ultrasound scans, in each quarter from 2022, to date in 2025; and the average time each patient spends on the waiting list in respect

Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health to provide the current waiting list for chronic pain services in each hospital, the number of patients waiting more than 12 months and more than 18 months, the number of patients aged over 65 years within those lists

Minister for Health the number of people on the waiting list in the haemoglobin clinic in Naas Hospital from 2021 to 2024; the average waiting time of those on waiting lists; the steps being taken to reduce waiting lists; and if she will make a statement

Deputy Máire Devine asked the Minister for Health the number of paediatric occupational therapists allocated to Cherry Orchard Hospital, Dublin 10 and or its network; the current waiting list size for paediatric occupational therapy at Cherry Orchard Hospital and its network; the average wait time for paediatric occupational

Deputy Barry Heneghan asked the Minister for Health the current waiting list for chronic pain services at Beaumont Hospital; the number of patients waiting more than four months; the number of patients aged over 65 years within those lists; and if she will make a statement

Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health the number of people waiting for elective surgery in Tallaght University Hospital; the average time spent on a waiting list for elective surgery in Tallaght University Hospital in each of the past five years, in tabular form

Deputy Aindrias Moynihan asked the Minister for Health the number of individuals currently wait listed for Cork University Maternity Hospital for a gynaecology appointment, by length of time waiting that is, up to 6, 12, 18 and over 18 months, in tabular form; and if she will make

Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of public patients from 2024 to 2025 on waiting lists for neurology treatment across Cork hospitals who have received care via insourcing activity; the extent to which this has activity reduced waiting lists, in tabular form

Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of public patients from 2024 to 2025 on waiting lists for neurology treatment across Cork hospitals who have received care via outsourcing activity; the extent to which this has activity reduced waiting lists, in tabular form

Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of patients currently on the inpatient and day case waiting list for ENT procedures at the South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, Cork, broken down by length of time waiting; whether any reduction in anaesthetic staffing or funding has reduced theatre

Deputy Matt Carthy asked the Minister for Health the current waiting list performance at Cavan Monaghan Hospital for outpatient, inpatient/day case and diagnostic services; the percentage of patients waiting longer than national targets; and the measures being taken to address delays in MRI and CT diagnostics

Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of people with diabetes on a waiting list to see a podiatrist by hospital group; the number of those waiting less than six months, between 6-12 months, and more than 12 months; and if she will

currently on the urgent outpatient waiting list for orthopaedic appointments at South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital; the average and longest waiting times; and the additional capacity being considered to reduce these waiting lists. [65383/26

Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of patients currently on a waiting list for a pacemaker at each public hospital; the average waiting time for the procedure at each hospital; the number of patients waiting longer than 3, 6,12 and 18 months respectively

number of people currently on waiting lists for essential care in outpatient, inpatient and day case treatment in public hospitals; the estimated total cost of clearing these waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51321/26

Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of public patients from 2024 to 2025 on waiting lists for neurology treatment in Cork University Hospital who have received care via insourcing activity; the extent to which this has activity reduced waiting lists, in tabular form

Deputy Eoghan Kenny asked the Minister for Health the number of public patients from 2024 to 2025 on waiting lists for neurology treatment in Cork University Hospital who have received care via outsourcing activity; the extent to which this has activity reduced waiting lists, in tabular form

Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of pelvic floor physiotherapists currently employed by the HSE, by RHA and hospital group; the current waiting lists for pelvic floor physiotherapy services in each area; the average waiting time for an appointment; and the measures being taken

Deputy Réada Cronin asked the Minister for Health the number of patients currently on an outpatient waiting list at Naas General Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46374/26

Deputy Mairéad Farrell asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the waiting lists in Galway University Hospital, which are the highest in the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4965/26

Minister for Health to provide details of appointments deemed urgent and non-urgent for children in South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital given the current waiting list for children’s non-urgent appointments in SIVUH is 16 to 18 months (details supplied); and if she will make a statement