Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Issues and Challenges relating to Cardiology: Irish Cardiac Society

9:30 am

Photo of David CullinaneDavid Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I thank Professor McAdam. I move to diagnostics, because it is one of those areas in healthcare where the National Treatment Purchase Fund does not publish the diagnostic waiting lists or indeed community waiting lists, which it should. Very often we have to keep digging and asking parliamentary questions to get some sense of how bad they are. We know that in some cases they are not great. In his opening statement Professor McKeown said "Access to cardiac diagnostics is very restricted and waiting times are long". Will he expand on that, first of all?