Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

There are over 900,000 people on some form of public hospital waiting list. The Irish Hospital Consultants Association, IHCA, stated it would take up to a decade to address that legacy issue. Its main thesis regarding the national treatment purchase fund, NTPF, and the figures was capacity in all forms around acute situations and all forms of the hospital environment. This is a legacy issue that goes back decades, particularly to when Fianna Fáil was in government and slashed thousands of beds out of public hospitals. What is this Government doing to address the underlying issues of 900,000 people on some form of waiting list?

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