Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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384. To ask the Minister for Health the outpatient waiting times at University Hospital Limerick by speciality and wait time bands (details supplied). [52928/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Improving access to hospital treatment is a key priority for government. This year €55 million was allocated to the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) to provide treatment for patients. This has been increased to a total of €75 million for 2019 and as a result of this additional funding, my Department is working closely with the NTPF and the HSE to finalise a Scheduled Care Access Plan for inpatients/day case and outpatients for 2019.

I recently met with the CEO's of all hospital groups and requested that they develop innovative proposals to address their outpatient lists in 2019.

In 2019, the NTPF and the HSE will continue to work closely with Hospital Groups, inviting proposals to improve access for patients waiting for either Inpatient/Daycase or Outpatient procedures.

The data sought by the Deputy is set out in the following link: