Bobby Aylward (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fianna Fail)
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101. To ask the Minister for Health if additional resources will be allocated to the existing cardiac catheterisation laboratory at University Hospital Waterford to increase the laboratory's capacity to accommodate the estimated 450 additional procedures that will be referred there through additional diagnostic angiograms set to be provided by the mobile catheterisation lab; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6093/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Herity Report, published in July 2016, recommended investment to enhance cardiac services at University Hospital Waterford to address waiting times and to provide improved access for patients. Accordingly, an additional €500,000 was allocated to the hospital for 2017 with a further €500,000 being provided in 2018, to support extension of the existing cath lab operating hours as recommended. The HSE has advised that the process for the recruitment of staff in order to support the extension of hours is under way. The HSE has advised that, at the end of January 2018, of those waiting for cath lab procedures in University Hospital Waterford, 82 % of these have been waiting for 3 months or less and 97 % have been waiting for less than 6 months.