Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Anti-Austerity Alliance) | Oireachtas source

We found out last night that there are two secret waiting lists in the health service. The HSE fiddled the figures and, in so doing, made the official lists look not as bad as they really are. Who benefited from that fiddling? The HSE did and so, too, did the Department of Health. In addition, successive Ministers for Health benefited from the fiddling of the figures, including the current Minister, Deputy Harris. Did the Minister have any idea these secret lists existed and, if not, why not?

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