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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Okay, so we are talking about the same thing. It is not a new change.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: That plan was in place before any of this came out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Are we not revising that plan?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: My time is ticking down. I am sorry. I hate to do this to Dr. Okafor, but what was the projection for 2023, before this came out? It was not 509. What was it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes, perhaps Dr. Okafor could get the exact figures. I presume the plan was building on 2022 so it was above 509.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: And now we are down to 450.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: I am sorry to cut across Dr. Okafor-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: I have read the plan and I am aware of that. I am sorry to cut across-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: Where are we with the four-month wait time goal?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: That is 90 children who are waiting more than four months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: What is the average wait now?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: When Dr. Okafor gets that, could he get the shortest wait, the average wait and the longest wait? That would be very helpful.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: I want to finish up on a question to Ms Hardiman. I note the reports are from the medical establishment and I am not from the medical establishment. They are very data-driven and focused on outcomes in terms of infection rates and so on. I do not know medicine but I know procurement very well, and there is very little about procurement. We have talked a little today about public trust and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: You are in charge of all of this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Spinal Surgery Issues at Children's University Hospital Temple Street: Children's Health Ireland (28 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: I worked on building sites where you could not put a not-up-to-grade window into a building because somebody would stop you. I do not know how we got here.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: This year, 2023?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: The freeze was announced in June.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: There is a cap based on numbers every year-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: -----and when that cap is reached it is stopped.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (27 Sep 2023)
Neasa Hourigan: At the time of the announcement there was not a duration specified but that would imply that in the next fiscal year we begin again.