Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I have a question regarding the National Treatment Purchase Fund, NTPF. There is a major concern that patients are being referred out for assessment, after which they are referred for another period of time to another list. The proposal is that when people are referred under the NTPF, it should be not only for assessment but that whatever procedure is required should also be carried out. Is that being considered as part of efforts to deal with getting people off the waiting lists from start to finish?