Hospital Waiting Lists
Dail Éireann — 2026-07-09
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Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG), Dún Laoghaire

Yes, I know. It really is excellent. I am not saying everything and every experience are perfect but it is doing enormously well. It is not just in terms of elective surgery; it has also increased its outpatient capacity by 23% and is at 100% of its endoscopy priority 1 target. That is significant activity, good management of a hospital and an enormous progression for that hospital on 18 months ago, or maybe slightly more, when it was in a different situation.
More staff have gone into the surgical hub for the region and that benefits everybody. About half of the staff in the surgical hub will be dedicated to the hub and different hospitals will move in with their own teams. We have organised it such that, over a two-week period, access to the hub will be shared between Beaumont, the Mater, Our Lady of Lourdes, Cavan-Monaghan, Connolly - all of the hospitals in the region - to ensure equity of access for everybody there. The increase in staff for the hub is an increase in staff for everybody because it can take scheduled activity away from Drogheda.

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Sitting date: 2026-07-09