Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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980. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients outsourced at University Hospital Limerick in 2017, in tabular form. [1164/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Reducing waiting times for patients is one of the Government's key priorities. Throughout 2017, the HSE and NTPF have worked together to drive down long wait times for inpatient and daycase procedures. The NTPF has worked with both private hospitals to arrange insourcing and outsourcing initiatives. Patients on the waiting list for University Hospital Limerick were authorised for treatment through these initiatives.

The NTPF has not as yet received the final reports of numbers who accepted the offer of treatment and numbers of patients who received their treatment. In relation to the specific query regarding the numbers of patients outsourced, I have asked the HSE to respond to the Deputy directly.