Professor Joyce O'Connor:

I thank Deputy Neville for his questions. I will answer directly on the real problem with waiting lists. The figures that I have are for July 2017. At that stage, urgent cases were seen within 72 hours, 73% of referrals were seen within three months and the total number waiting more than 12 months was 366. There were five CHO areas that did not have any waiting lists in excess of 12 months.