Bertie Ahern (Dublin Central, Fianna Fail)

I can only give the factual position. A total of 100,000 inpatient and day care procedures are done in the public hospital system every month, more than 1 million annually. This is not a big country. The figures are, therefore, impressive. At the end of September, which is right up to date, there were 19,083 adults and 2,320 children waiting for more than three months for hospital treatment.

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