Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

My final question relates to waiting times. This is one of the pinch points in the whole health service. I have said many times that the Irish public health system is a really good system once you get into it but the main thing is getting into it. Waiting times of, in certain instances, a couple of years are just not good enough because intervention is key. Cutting them down to ten or 12 weeks is extremely ambitious but that is where we want to get to. How ambitious is that? Is it possible during the Minister's timeframe as Minister for Health to get them down to that period of time? There are other pinch points around waiting times for speech and language therapy and occupational therapy supports. Those lists are very lengthy. How will the Minister address them in his tenure?