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delivery on commitments. The multiannual waiting list action plan approach, which commenced in September 2021, facilitates target setting and monitoring for acute hospital waiting list performance and has been highly effective in improving waiting times for our hospital services. While it is acknowledged that further improvements are needed … Fund. The scope of the best practice reporting programme is to implement waiting time and waiting list reporting for patients on acute hospital waiting lists. The greater access to meaningful wait time information for patients and practitioners that will be provided through best practice reporting will assist

degree of transparency to waiting lists. At the end of every month, the NTPF publishes some waiting lists. It publishes the acute hospital waiting list, which is very welcome, but it does not publish diagnostic waiting lists or community waiting lists. It does not cover mental health waiting … want to be here in five years' time again still talking about problems with managing waiting lists or about people waiting too long; still waiting for the elective hospitals to be built or the 3,000 beds that Stephen Donnelly promised, which we will not see delivered over

waiting for years on end for basic care. Community waiting lists have increased, as have mental health waiting lists. Acute hospital waiting lists have remained static. The national children's hospital has still not been built. All there is in the programme for Government on the national children … sense of detail, timescale, urgency or recognition of all of the challenges. It just states "Open the National Children’s Hospital". There is a long list of measures which I found laughable as somebody who takes my responsibility as health spokesperson very seriously. I set out in detail

many across our public healthcare system at the moment is of unacceptably long wait lists. Currently, 625,000 people are on acute hospital outpatient waiting lists and 110,000 are waiting a year or more. While the targets are there, only 30.5% of people are being seen within … questions across the various hospitals, we saw that the next available appointment in Beaumont for a Holter monitor is June 2026. In St. James's, the average waiting time is 22 months. It has only ten monitors and 733 patients on the waiting list. In Galway, 600 people

reduce waiting lists until we put capacity into the system. We have to build the four elective hospitals. We have to deliver on the hospital beds. We have to deliver on the diagnostic capacity. We have to upgrade equipment. We need new equipment in some hospitals … doing it because we do not believe we can do it to the same standard as acute hospital waiting lists is not a satisfactory response. We have an entitlement to the highest levels of transparency. I imagine it frustrates patients that we spend tens of billions every year

with special needs and adults who require anaesthesia to access treatment suffer from a lack of services. There is a two-year waiting list in hospitals for such treatment. I have had representations at my constituency office about this. Patients often present with serious levels of tooth decay … health issues. That needs to be fixed. In the Dublin and midlands health region, there are 654 children and 102 adults on waiting lists for hospital treatment. That matter requires urgent attention. The Irish Dental Association has highlighted the fact that 500 additional dentists are needed immediately

services. Supply-side interventions are needed for investment in primary and community care so that our hospitals are not the default but supply-side policies alone will not address the waiting list problems. Sláintecare is clear on the requirement for maximum wait-time guarantees and the need … holding those guarantees are held to account. This is why we need legislation like this. Currently, the NTPF publishes monthly acute hospital waiting lists and some diagnostic waiting lists. However, those for other areas, such as primary care, are not routinely published. Instead, these must be sought

reform hospital waiting lists and waiting times. Since the commencement of the action plan approach, the health service has seen significant progress in reducing the length of time patients are waiting, including a reduction of 56%, or 157,000, in the number of patients waiting over 12 months … provided in Cork by Cork University Hospital and South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital, with CUH being the trauma centre and South Infirmary providing elective procedures. I was interested to read that the waiting lists in CUH and the South Infirmary are like chalk and cheese. There are currently

patients were awaiting beds in our hospitals. Of those, 394 were on trolleys. We now have over 1 million people on hospital waiting lists. The Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, has stated that we need up to 7,780 more hospital beds and 1,200 more

want to be compassionate. We know the benefits of migration. This country is better as a result of immigration. The Deputy referenced hospital waiting lists. I shudder to think how high they would be if we did not have so many people coming from abroad, working

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

appropriate to ensure effective priorities and target setting as well as the live and extensive reporting of waiting list information. In addition, access to accurate data about patients waiting for service across the system is recognised as being crucial to how we can facilitate access to those services … address the key issue of the length of time people are waiting for treatment. The improvements achieved in terms of acute hospital waiting lists and waiting times are being driven by specific actions aimed at increasing capacity and embedding reform by means of the waiting list action plan

improving access, improving service quality and delivering capacity. Good progress has been made to date in terms of access. However, the latest hospital waiting list figures, for August 2025, show that important progress has also been made under the waiting list action plan approach which was implemented … waiting time for patients on waiting lists has reduced by approximately 44%. We are seeing continued progress in terms of long waiters and the most recent figures indicate there has been a reduction of 7% in the number of patients waiting over 18 months since this time last

supermarket till. We have 17,885 people in emergency accommodation, 5,830 of whom are children. We have 1 million people on hospital waiting lists. However, the left has brought this Bill before the House. It is not concerned about a family living in a hotel room … newborn's record. This mark will follow the child for the rest of their medical history. It will follow them into school, hospital, the Passport Office and, eventually, to their death certificate. We do not put a mark on a birth certificate when a child is born with

does not deliver enough for them. Some 400,000 children are being taught in overcrowded classrooms. There are a million people on hospital waiting lists, including a young man in my constituency who has told me he has been in pain, waiting three years for knee surgery … time available to me. Some of the current issues in health are not addressed by the budget. The DOMINO scheme in Cork University Hospital, CUH, has been significantly curtailed as a result of 80 nursing and midwifery vacancies. Newly qualified nurses in Cork and Galway are not getting

cannot, in itself, be the measure of our success. That success must be measured differently - in the homes that are built, in hospital waiting lists that are reduced, in childcare places created, in infrastructure delivered and, ultimately, in whether people at home can see and feel a difference … community workforce growth within agreed pay budgets; an additional 1.8 million home-support hours helping older people remain at home and to leave hospital; reform of GP services, including better access to GP out-of-hours services across the six health regions; better access to dental and orthodontic

contracts. I watched yesterday as healthcare workers went on the picket line. We know that we have 1 million people on our hospital waiting lists. These graduates deserve permanent contracts. The INMO has been raising concerns about this over the last number of weeks and rightly

interesting that the Taoiseach chose the health service because 1 million people are on hospital waiting lists at the moment. It is also interesting that one of the issues the Taoiseach chose to respond to was the promise that there would be a full public investigation into what

crisis that people are facing right now. At the end of the day, people want delivery. They want houses built, they want hospital waiting lists reduced, they want safer communities and they want a Government that is focused on the challenges in front of it today, while responsibly

consultations, treatments, engagements and operations that are delivered to patients, as this would save money, incentivise hospitals to reduce the length of hospital waiting lists and reorientate staff numbers towards the front line; and — increase the price of electricity to new data centres, as this would reduce household

taxpayers' money to this effort. We must acknowledge the scale of this expenditure at a time when domestic pressures ranging from hospital waiting lists to rural infrastructure deficits remain acute. Irish families and businesses are entitled to expect that their elected representatives will balance international commitments with

There are nearly 1 million people on the hospital waiting lists

another issue here. The Government talks about people not being able to make hospital appointments. There are a million people on hospital waiting lists at the moment. There are a dozen children on scoliosis lists across the country at the moment who cannot get operations. Some of them

health system. When that door is locked or costs too much to open, so much else backs up behind it, leading to hospital waiting lists, overcrowded emergency departments and untreated illnesses in our communities. The evidence collected by Deputy Rice is overwhelming. Our party survey shows that while

agreement is mission creep. It is a workaround and people can see it. Families here in Ireland are dealing with housing shortages, hospital waiting lists, rising prices and failing infrastructure but the Government has not explained why we should be taking an open-ended financial commitment overseas when

Minister for Health the measures her Department is taking to reduce hospital waiting lists in public hospitals across the IHA-4 HSE Area Midlands, in light of the most recently published national hospital waiting list figures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [4957/26

Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on an acute hospital waiting list, by age category, hospital, speciality and time waiting, in tabular form. [3328/25

Deputy Pa Daly asked the Minister for Health if he will report on hospital waiting lists in Kerry; to provide a breakdown, per hospital of the number on the waiting list; to provide a breakdown of the average length of time spent on waiting list

Deputy Peter 'Chap' Cleere asked the Minister for Health the actions being taken to reduce hospital waiting lists in St Luke's Hospital Kilkenny; and whether current targets will be met in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22047/26

Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health to list the reference code for each acute hospital waiting lists, by specialty; and the number of people on each list, in tabular form. [47033/26

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 Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health in relation to dental hospital waiting lists, the waiting list numbers and waiting times for all specialist services in Dublin and Cork dental schools between oral surgery and oral medicine; the number that are waiting more than six months

Health whether the Department of Health has carried out any national analysis of the relationship between agency staffing expenditure and reductions in hospital waiting lists since the commencement of the multi-annual waiting list action plan approach in 2021; and if she will make a statement

Minister for Health the measures she will take in 2026 to reverse the trend of increasing hospital and emergency department overcrowding and hospital waiting lists; the additional acute beds, step-down beds and home-care capacity added in 2025 and planned for 2026; the steps she will take

Deputy Ken O'Flynn asked the Minister for Health the number of patients on hospital waiting lists nationwide as of September 2025; how this compares to September 2024; the number of consultant posts that remain vacant across the HSE; and the actions being taken to address these vacancies

Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Health if she will provide information regarding public hospital waiting lists (details supplied). [44472/25

Deputy Séamus McGrath asked the Minister for Health if she will provide information regarding public hospital waiting lists for surgery (details supplied). [44473/25

detailed assessment of the impacts of a phasing out of insourcing activity in the health service, including for patients on hospital waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45636/25

Minister for Health for an update on current waiting times for neurology services; the current number of persons on neurology outpatient waiting lists by hospital group; the actions being taken to address these waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33809/26

each hospital such surgery takes place in; the average wait time in the Mater Hospital; the number of individuals on the wait list per hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42582/26

Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health for a detailed breakdown of the colonoscopy waiting lists in University Hospital Kerry; the number on the waiting list; the length of time they have been waiting; the number of new referrals; the actions being taken to address these waiting

Minister for Health for an update on current waiting times for ophthalmology services; the current number of persons on ophthalmology outpatient waiting lists by Hospital Group; and the actions being taken to address these waiting times. [51428/26

Graves asked the Minister for Health the current waiting times for cardiology services; the current number of persons on cardiology outpatient waiting lists, by hospital group; and the actions being taken to address these waiting times. [39386/26

Deputy Marie Sherlock asked the Minister for Health the total number of people on ophthalmology waiting lists in all hospitals offering ophthalmology services by length of time on such wait lists, and the average wait time someone can be expected to be seen in each of those hospitals

Deputy Pádraig Mac Lochlainn asked the Minister for Health the number of people with diabetes on a waiting list by hospital group, in the years 2022, 2023 and 2024; the number of those waiting less than six months, between 6-12 months, and more than 12 months

waiting list elective in-patient and day-case surgeries at Galway University Hospital and Portiuncula University Hospital, for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; the amount of money paid to private hospitals via the national treatment purchase fund from the outsourcing of waiting list elective … years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; the amount of money paid to private hospitals via the national treatment purchase fund from the outsourcing of waiting list elective in-patient and day-case surgeries at Merlin Park University Hospital for the years

South Infirmary Victoria University Hospital have exceeded 18 months for non urgent patients; the number of patients currently on the ENT waiting list at that hospital; the number that have been waiting longer than 12 and 18 months respectively; and the actions being taken to reduce these waiting

Deputy John Paul O'Shea asked the Minister for Health the number of patients currently on orthopaedic outpatient and inpatient waiting lists in all hospitals in Cork; the average and longest waiting times; the steps being taken to reduce these lists; and if she will make a statement

number of persons on neurology outpatient waiting lists; the average waiting time for an appointment; the actions being taken to reduce these waiting lists, by hospital, for each of the years 2020 to 2026, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33810/26

Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the waiting list, per hospital, for gynaecology outpatient appointments, in tabular form. [5240/25