Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 June 2025

Select Committee on Health

Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)

2:00 am

Photo of Jennifer Carroll MacNeillJennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)

No, it is not necessarily my view at all that it is wrongdoing. What we are speaking about in productivity is that if we have more consultants, I would expect that we have more outpatient appointments. We can check the number of outpatient appointments per consultant and the level of activity per specialism, and it will start to become visible, perhaps, that some specialisms are better organised or more productive than others. There might be a range of different reasons behind this and the hospitals might like to account for it themselves. I am conscious that I am only one voice on this and perhaps my officials would like to add to it but I believe the dashboard is significant.

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