Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 19 June 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion

2:00 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Exactly. This unpublished report, which again was in the public domain in part because of concerns about delayed waiting lists, in the context of one subset of these patients states:

Despite an existing alternative option being available for quicker treatment, patients with undescended testes who require this procedure are waiting far in excess of the recommended timeframe for treatment placing those patients at real and known risk for fertility issues and/or cancer in later life.

It is shocking that this could happen. What follow-up has been done on that?

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