Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 October 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)
9:30 am
Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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In regard to the National Ambulance Service, there has been a huge increase in population in Wexford alone, so I assume the CHO 5 area has had an increase. Can the committee have a note on how the HSE is catering for the increase in population through the NAS?
Currently, in Wexford, 160 people with special needs are awaiting dental treatment under anaesthesia. Pre Covid, there were two sessions a week at Wexford General Hospital but there is only one now. One hundred of those 160 people with special needs are children. Who is responsible for restoring pre-Covid levels of service?