Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We will see them by the end of the year. I want to reach the point the Deputy is talking about. There is much talk about waiting lists and the number of people waiting. The Deputy's question is a much more important question: what are the waiting times? If 1 million people are waiting no more than a week, that is fine. The problem is that people are waiting too long. As a first step, we will look at the number of people waiting. I then want to move on quickly to answering the Deputy's question on the amount of time people are waiting which ultimately is much more important.