Séamus Healy (Tipperary South, Workers and Unemployed Action Group) | Oireachtas source

The figures the Minister has given are completely unacceptable and indicate that what parents have been saying to me and other Deputies is accurate. Does the Minister have in mind any short-time measures which could be activated quickly to ease the backlog? As I said, I have spoken to parents whose children are waiting 18 months for what their GPs have indicated is urgently required treatment. It is entirely unacceptable that 285 people are waiting up to four years to be seen, 769 between two and three years, and 1,179 between one and two years.

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