Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We can throw money at it and we are doing that but there are other challenges in the system.

As a matter of absolute fact, and I am not manipulating waiting lists, this year there will be 447 procedures carried out by the children's hospital group. Two years ago 224 procedures were carried out by them so that is a 100% improvement rate in two years in the amount of procedures carried out by the children's hospital group. That is a matter of fact and it is not borrowing from any other list to manipulate the figures. It is on the record to be understood and I would like the Deputies to take note of that.

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