David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

It is not too much to ask for, and I am including home care in that. Every time I get a response I find there is some category missing. I am asking a very simple question. What is the total number of people on all health waiting lists? I want the witnesses to come back to me with a figure. It cannot be beyond them to provide that.

To come back to the issue of capacity, I talked about a good performing hospital but there are ones that are not performing well and Limerick is one of them. It was before this committee a number of weeks ago, and said it need at least 150 additional acute beds. I got a response to a parliamentary question last week from the HSE and the Minister stating that since 2020 1,228 beds were funded. Is that right? There were 1,156 as part of the 2021 budget announced in October 2020, and then 72 as part of the national service plan in 2022. That is a figure of 1,228. How many of those beds, funded today, have still not been delivered?