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

-----we lose valuable time. We also have problems in that we have consultants who are lucky to get a half day per week in operating space because they cannot get access to operating theatres. That needs to be looked at and that was done by the gynaecology services in Cork where there were 4,500 on the list. They got time in the Mater Private. The consultants went down there and cleared more than 3,000 off the list in a very short timeframe.