Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We are all aware that there are huge waiting lists for children in the context of getting access to diagnostics and treatment. However, those lists do not apply if a child's parents can afford to pay for the treatment. Are we potentially looking at a situation where there may be two children with the same condition who need to see the same consultant and where one child whose parents cannot afford to pay and who may have to wait two years to see him or her will go through one door while the other child whose parents can pay will go through the private door and be seen within two days?