Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 December 2021

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health

9:30 am

Mr. Robert Watt:

Obviously, there are different aspects to the waiting lists. There is the outpatient waiting list where there are over 600,000 people now waiting. There is the inpatient and day-care waiting list, where there are 75,000 people who are waiting. We have had a structural problem with waiting lists. We were making some progress before Covid. The number of people waiting for longer than six months, in terms of inpatient and day cases, had come down. The challenge in terms of how to-----

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