James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Fianna Fáil has been wonderful at describing the problem but not terribly good at dealing with it, as we all know. Despite a 10% reduction in staff, 20% reduction in budget and an 8% increase in our population, we have reduced the number of people waiting over a year for an outpatient appointment by 95%. The august Members of Fianna Fáil who were in government for 14 years did not even deign to count the number of people on outpatient waiting lists because they did not want to know.

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