Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will finish on this point. Sarah Burke of the centre for health policy and management in Trinity College nailed it when she said that over a decade of pouring hundreds of millions into the NTPF is proof it does not address the underlying causes and the long waits for public patients. Will the Government accept this reality and bring forward a proper programme which, at its core, has investment in the public service so we can end the shameful episode of having 707,000 patients on hospital waiting lists?

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