Dáil debates

Wednesday, 5 October 2005

Report of Comptroller and Auditor General: Motion (Resumed).

 

8:00 pm

Photo of Liam TwomeyLiam Twomey (Wexford, Fine Gael)

I will settle for "deliberate deception", so, because the public pronouncements on the national treatment purchase fund are peppered with references to three months waiting time for an operation. A patient will not even get to see a consultant within three months from the time the general practitioner writes a letter. For many specialties such as dermatology, ENT, orthopaedics etc. it is between two and seven years. A patient will not even get on the national treatment purchase fund scheme for three months after he or she is put on the waiting list in the hospital. At least the television advertisements say, "Terms and conditions apply". Let us stop misleading the general public or I will tell every patient to go and talk to the Minister if they are not seen in three months, since that is what people are promised.

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