Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We can check the dates but I am expecting it in the next few weeks. I am sure the Deputy will agree that in setting the terms of reference for what is a very important report, we should be cognisant of whatever comes out of the report by Mr. Justice Frank Clarke. We are going to set those terms and then we will talk to HIQA about timing. On the political point, I understand why the Deputy would make that point. I might well make the point myself if I was sitting where he is. I can state clearly that the reason that I have asked HIQA to do this is because of what has happened in the hospital in the first fourth months of this year. If we go back to last year, when we looked at UHL, the waiting lists were falling rapidly and the number of patients on trolleys was falling. The additional capacity reforms were working.