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

I will move on to two other issues. One is hospitals coming back to providing services. I recently spoke to someone who is working in a hospital operating theatre. In the past two weeks they had a full complement of theatre staff and they had to do a particular operation because it was urgent, but they were not able to do their elective list which they normally did on a particular day in the week. They had a full complement of theatre staff and of staff in the wards and there were empty beds on the wards. What is being done now to get all of the hospitals back up and running and doing elective surgeries given the significant backlog of elective surgeries in every area, including orthopaedic and paediatric surgery? What is being done in that area to get every hospital up and running in respect of those services?