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

I am very sorry to hear about the long wait being suffered by the Deputy's constituent. It is not possible for me to comment on individual cases, I do not have access to individual patient information, nor should I, however more generally we are making a lot of progress in reducing waiting times for people waiting for operations and procedures in our hospitals. They have been falling consistently for about a year and the number of people waiting more than three months for an operation or procedure is now slightly lower than when this Government came to office. I will give some small examples. The number of people waiting more than three months for a cataract operation last July was nearly 8,000 and is now down to 4,000.

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