Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I appreciate the information and statistics that have been given. There are still 1,500 children waiting up to a year for treatment, 1,294 or so waiting up to two years and 500 children waiting from two to three years, which is not a huge improvement on the figures we had a year and a half ago. Has the review that was talked about by the former Minister of State at the Department of Health and current Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources, Deputy Alex White, been done? If so, has the moratorium made any difference? Will there be new permanent posts provided under the HSE? There can be service plans, independent practitioners and people brought in from agencies, etc., but what we need are more nurses, dentists and staff within the service. Are there plans to do that?