Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Friday, 17 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Waiting Lists and Screening

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Morrogh. She said earlier that before Covid, we already had untimely access to diagnostics and we now have a backlog, which creates more problems and challenges. The HSE will tell us today that it accepts that there is a developing backlog of cases, including in the four main screening programmes, including cancer. It says that this backlog will now have to be cleared in a Covid environment. If Ms Morrogh was talking to the HSE, what is the timeframe? One can say that we will clear the backlog but in reality, how quickly do we need to clear that backlog? From Ms Morrogh's perspective, what timeframe are we looking at?

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