Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health

Ms Laura Magahy:

There is. Maybe the slides were not great at the beginning. We were saying that there is a waiting lists programme in place that is targeting hospital waiting lists, community and all kinds of waiting lists to make sure that they are driven down over the next four years. We have, literally in the past two months, done a call-out to every community healthcare organisation asking it to show us your waiting lists, asking what are the plans, whether permanent capacity is required, what is it and whether a temporary injection is needed to drive them down. I stated earlier that we would be bringing up a multi-annual waiting list programme to Government for consideration.

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