Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

First, I thank the Deputy for acknowledging the very significant reduction in the long waiters. I appreciate his saying that. It may or may not be a comfort to the Deputy but I have asked the same question myself many times and the Department is also asking the same question. It goes back to the question we were having with Deputy Hourigan, that until we have electronic patient records and unique patient identifiers, we will not know.