Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is a guideline of the special delivery unit that people should be given appropriate outpatient appointment times. Sometimes everyone is told to turn up at 9 a.m. or 10 a.m., and that is not acceptable. I invited all the hospital managers to meet me approximately two weeks ago and one of the issues I specifically raised with them was that hospitals should give people realistic appointment times, every 15 minutes or every half an hour, and not just have everyone arrive at the same time. None of the managers said they had a problem with that, and I will follow this up with them when I meet them again in a few months.

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