Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I am answering the question. This is relevant and speaks directly to the Deputy’s question. There are three clinical areas specifically called out within the waiting list action plan, and they are bariatrics, gynaecology and paediatric orthopaedics, so there is an ongoing conversation at a very senior level in the Department, the HSE and Children's Health Ireland on this. Paediatric orthopaedics, including spinal, has been a top priority right through the waiting list action plan, so these conversations are going on all the time.

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