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

That is the plan. I am advised that emergency and very urgent CT scans are completed on the same day or within a week, that there are 208 patients waiting for urgent scans, that the average wait time is three to four months and that there are 313 patients waiting for routine or semi-urgent scans and that the current average waiting time for them is from four to six months.

Given this may be the last time we are together in the current format, I took the opportunity to look at the Independent Alliance's ten point charter. Many times in this Chamber, Deputy Halligan has raised issues relating to University Hospital Waterford and hospitals in general and while there is lots of motherhood and apple pie talk in the charter about protecting the vulnerable and so on, I was struck by the fact that it makes no mention of hospitals at all.

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