An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business
Dail Éireann — 2022-04-26
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Gino Kenny (PBP), Dublin Mid-West

One in 12 children is now on some form of hospital waiting list. More than 100,000 children are on some form of National Treatment Purchase Fund list. One in three children has been waiting longer than a year for treatment or assessment by a hospital consultant. Over the Easter period, the Irish Hospital Consultants Association issued a press release on these figures. It states children will suffer from health and developmental issues that could have been reversed or mitigated if only they had been seen in time. What does this say about the State and the public health service?

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Sitting date: 2022-04-26