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more than 2,300, I think, on the waiting list in south Tipperary. It may surprise the Minister of State to hear that 1,500 of those are children under the age of four, some waiting as far back as 2021. He can appreciate it is very difficult … hospital in Dublin. There is no evidence any of those initiatives have commenced. I am looking for an update on recruitment as well. We need that multidisciplinary team at the earliest opportunity so that the 2,300 on the waiting list can be dealt with as soon

travel outside of my area to put pressure on hospitals in other areas that are already under immense pressure. Balbriggan Primary Care Centre cannot even provide immunisation facilities for older people and children. There is a chronic waiting list for GPs in north County Dublin. It is acute

issues faced by University Hospital Limerick. The huge number of people on trolleys remains unacceptably high. One of the impacts of that is the number of outpatients waiting excessive amounts of time for appointments: 3,244 people have been on outpatient waiting lists for more than 12 months … delayed, but why is the funding being cut when the Government is fully aware of the crisis in emergency care at University Hospital Limerick

clinical need. I have asked the HSE to provide the most recent Longford-Westmeath staffing and waiting list position, including the number of children waiting and the length of those waits. The provision of ophthalmology services is organised on a regional basis to ensure patients have access … falls under the remit of the Department of Children, Disability and Equality, the Minister for Health recognises that the current primary care therapy waiting lists and long waiting times for access to those services are unacceptable, particularly for children. The people of Longford and Westmeath deserve healthcare that

into CHI must look at the whole picture, examining what truly happened to the children affected rather than just sanitising administrative systems or waiting lists. Furthermore, we believe any such inquiry must go back far enough to capture the root causes rather than arbitrarily starting the clock … concealment and corporate stonewalling. When parents learn about critical and medical reports through media leaks rather than direct communication, trust is broken. When hospital governance fails, accountability must start at the top, with the Minister for Health taking real hands-on control. Sinn Féin wants a public health

acceptable that when a patient goes from one hospital to another the files are not there. I know the HSE is working on this but it is taking too long. Those delays are actually adding to the waiting lists and adding to the work of the administration

fear of ending up on a waiting list, particularly for a diagnosis. I know many people who are waiting to get scans, scopes or other services. They go to their GP, who writes a letter to the hospital and says they will get an appointment at some stage

understand that. Our issue does not just relate to beds; it is also about staff. If anyone needs reminding, we have outrageous waiting lists for occupational therapy, OT, speech and language therapy, SLT, physiotherapy, psychology and other therapies. Right now, however, hundreds of health profession graduates are languishing … panels while waiting lists for disability services grow. The Government has rightly funded the expansion of those therapy training places over the past four years. Physiotherapy is up by over 80%, OT by 62% and SLT by 21%. A pipeline of graduates is coming out of college. This

that Harvey Morrison Sherratt was taken off the waiting list for clinical reasons. That is a very broad brush. We also know that 20% of the cancellations are unaccounted for at the moment. We are not told in which hospitals this is happening and we are also told

with the Royal Victoria Ear and Eye Hospital in Dublin with a view to supporting Tipperary south. It has undertaken discussions with a private agency and a scoping exercise is being conducted in this regard, acknowledging the long waiting list and the likes of the two kids

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

local health services, like Portiuncula Hospital in Galway and community care hubs in east Galway, the flexibility they need? Will funding allocations truly reflect the demographic demands of rural regions like east Galway, which has an ageing population and growing waiting lists for inpatient and outpatient care? Accountability … will be an emergency or an outbreak. From experience and from my knowledge of how the HSE, particularly in the context of University Hospital Galway, Merlin Park and other hospitals in Galway, deals with these scenarios, I have to compliment and thank those workers. It is important

underlying issues facing the hospitality sector; and calls for in Budget 2026: — the €630 million cost of an untargeted VAT reduction, instead be committed to measures to relieve child poverty and homelessness, the improvement of public services, and reduction in waiting lists for disability and health services … poverty and homelessness, the Government is hellbent on wasting more than €600 million on a non-targeted VAT rate reduction for the big hospitality lobby. Just over half of that money could, as the Minister will be aware, abolish the carer's means-test in the morning

House about that reasonably shortly, because I want to see it published. I would like to refer to the paediatric spinal surgery waiting lists, both to acknowledge the work that is being done alongside reforms and the very real challenges with this service and how they are being … years, but we want to see more. What matters most is the length of time that children are waiting. There has been an improvement in the longest wait lists. At the end of 2025, 47% of those on the CHI active waiting list were within Sláintecare targets, compared

region. Across the county more than 5,000 people are waiting for home care packages, with more than 1,000 of them on waiting lists in the Cork and Kerry region. Very often these are people who have been assessed as needing a home care package … people are struggling at home alone. They may be caring for an elderly loved one or they may be stuck in an acute hospital waiting for discharge. The HSE has identified various black spots where it is not able to deliver the service itself and neither

each other. I meet those parents all of the time. I know the hurt, pain, stress and anxiety they go through because the waiting list for the CDNT for Blakestown is 72 months. They get the assessments but where are the supports they require? They are virtually … case, why is it not unacceptable for children with different abilities and specific needs? We need to stop the excuses and end the waiting lists. Those children need that support and they need

waiting list, his spinal curve caused his ribcage to twist around his lungs and heart, severely restricting his breathing. We have all seen that heart-wrenching video that was put on social media. Harvey spent the last two Christmases of his very short life in hospital. Eventually, Harvey … situation had Deputy Harris kept his promise that this surgery would be done within four months. This morning, we heard of more increased waiting times for children with scoliosis. Unless there is a radical overhaul of CHI and real accountability, including at ministerial level, Harvey will never

Finbarr's Hospital campus in Cork city. There is no service west of Clonakilty. It is questionable that children who should be seen urgently are being put on a routine list. There are children in west Cork who have been put on the routine list at 14 years … time they come to be seen they are aged over 18. They are then in the adult dental service and go onto another waiting list. When I was growing up, there was a dental service in every town and village. In the name of God, what has gone

situation at Dundalk hospital for the children who are referred there. We might as well tell them they will not receive the orthopaedic care they need. This cannot stand. We need urgent action to reduce orthodontic and dental waiting lists. We need investment in public dental services

waiting lists are growing. There are 324 people waiting. That is not just about those families and, of course, the people themselves not having that level of support; it also impacts, as I said, on Letterkenny University Hospital. It means more people in the emergency department because

younger people can access 20 dedicated eating disorder beds across the four CAMHS inpatient units. As of the most recent update available, the waiting list nationally to access beds in CAMHS units, for those aged 18 and under, due to eating disorders … capacity on a case-by-case basis and through the three specialist eating disorder beds at St. Vincent’s Hospital. As of yesterday evening, no one was waiting to access the beds at St. Vincent's. A review of adult bed capacity for specialist eating disorder beds

clear that I am an advocate of the public health system. If people want to have private health insurance and go to private hospitals, they are welcome to do so. This is a free country. However, I am a Minister trying to implement a public system with … dissuaded from that. That is important. However, it is also important that we use the levers we have to address the waiting lists where we can because that means our constituents, our people, getting operations today instead of some other time, while we all go on this transition

unit nearby, is to make the decision long term. We need ambition to have a model 3 or model 4 hospital in the mid-west. Anything else will continue this discrimination and I will not be part of another generation of politicians who stand up in this House … weekend about cases in Limerick. Despite the new 96-bed block, the numbers there are 110 on trolleys and 31,000 on waiting lists. We have a worrying situation where consultants, because of the working conditions, are leaving. I urge the Minister of State to give the Christmas

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

been in government all these years, I would be absolutely ashamed. No one takes responsibility. People have to wait and wait for repairs which never come. The list of LIS roads gets longer and longer. Where is the accountability and funding? We are not looking for highways, just … pier. That is critical infrastructure. If we take, for example, Mayo University Hospital and Belmullet hospital, every time there is an election there is announcement, and then another, while people wait for projects that are never delivered and are critical to communities. The Minister is familiar with

Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Health the waiting times for pain treatment in Sligo Hospital for all lists, for the years 2024, 2025 and to date in 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27059/26

Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire asked the Minister for Health the waiting list for pain management in CUH and the Mercy Hospital, by three, six, nine, 12, 18 and 24 months. [23445/26

Deputy Fionntán Ó Súilleabháin asked the Minister for Health the current waiting list to see an orthopaedic surgeon in Ireland, per hospital, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17427/26

Deputy Paul Donnelly asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on a waiting list to see a consultant plastic surgeon at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown for a first appointment. [11594/26

Deputy Charles Ward asked the Minister for Health the number of patients on the waiting list for partial knee replacement surgery at Letterkenny University Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [74908/25

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

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 Grace Boland asked the Minister for Health if it is the case that only patients on waiting lists under the care of the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital will be referred to the Swords surgical hub when it opens later this year for their procedures

Minister for Health if she will report on the provision of MRI scans in Cavan and Monaghan hospitals; the number and location of all scanners; current waiting lists to access such; the days which scans are currently taking place; and if she will make a statement

Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of people with diabetes on a waiting list to see a podiatrist by in each HSE enhanced community care specialist ambulatory care hub hospital group; the number of those waiting less than six months, between 6-12 months, and more

Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health to provide a list of sites where hospital sessions for dental treatments are available for special needs patients under general anaesthetic here; the relevant waiting lists for each; the number of patients treated in each unit under general anaesthetic

years, 2023, 2024, and 2025; the number of patients currently on the waiting list for this service as of January 2026; if she has considered offering this service in other regional hospitals; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7720/26

appointments or average waiting times, the way in which compliance with recommended surveillance intervals is monitored; whether individual hospitals maintain this information; and if national reporting of these waiting lists will be introduced. [74100/26

Deputy John Connolly asked the Minister for Health To outline the current waiting list numbers and average waiting times for neurology services in University Hospital Galway and across the West of Ireland; the number of consultant neurologists and support staff currently in post; the existing vacancies; the measures

Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health whether the HSE, NTPF or any acute hospital records separately the number of orthopaedic patients removed from waiting lists through administrative validation due to non-response, patient choice, treatment elsewhere, clinical review or other reasons

patients awaiting orthopaedic outpatient assessment who have not yet been placed on an inpatient or day-case surgical waiting list; and if so, the current number, broken down by hospital group and orthopaedic subspecialty. [44094/26

person (details supplied) who has been awaiting a total knee replacement for over five years at Beaumont Hospital; the reason, despite the length of time on the waiting list and the clinical complexity of the case, surgery has still not being scheduled; the steps which are being taken

Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an appointment in Galway University Hospital; if the person is on the routine or urgent waiting list; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6348/26

Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health if her Department has considered arrangements with overseas hospitals to provide treatment for Irish children currently on spinal waiting lists; if not, the reason; and if so, the details of any negotiations or agreements reached to date. [45446/25

Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Health the number of patients awaiting orthopaedic surgery in each hospital, in tabular form; and the measures planned to alleviate waiting lists for surgery under this speciality. [25951/25

Deputy Cathy Bennett asked the Minister for Health if she will outline the current waiting lists for CT and MRI scans at Monaghan and Cavan hospitals. [24126/25

Health when a person (details supplied) in County Donegal will receive an orthopaedic appointment in Galway University Hospital; and if the person is on the routine or urgent waiting list. [68227/26

asked the Minister for Health the current waiting times for first-time chronic pain appointments in each hospital group; the number of people aged over 65 on each waiting list; and the measures being introduced to reduce these waiting times. [68701/25