Derek Nolan (Galway West, Labour) | Oireachtas source

That compares with 40% in the UK, according to the Comptroller and Auditor General's report. This has been listed as one of the day-case surgery target routines since 2006. We are eight years into it; it seems a long time to be trying to win over and sympathise with consultants and to assure, coax and cajole them into believing it can be done as a day-case procedure.