Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

In the past 18 months, Deputy Michael Healy-Rae and I have consistently raised the issue of people on three and four year waiting lists for cataract procedures and teenagers waiting four or five years for orthodontic treatment. There are five Ministers with responsibility for health and any number of HSE managers who are being paid a fortune. It is difficult for people who are languishing for three, four and five years on waiting lists, to be saved from going blind or for orthodontic treatment, to understand why they must wait so long. Has the Taoiseach interacted with HSE South about the queries we have been consistently raising? What answers has he received? What satisfaction will these poor people get, or will they ever get treatment? We gave an extra €900 million to the HSE last year. Where is it being spent? I plead with the Taoiseach to do something about this. It is not fair to these people.

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