Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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2540.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting colonoscopy in County Cavan and County Monaghan; the number of these who have been waiting up to 30, 30 to 60, 60 to 90 days and more than 90 days, in tabular form. [33541/24]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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2542.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting endoscopy in County Cavan and County Monaghan; the number of these that have been waiting up to 30 days; 30 to 60 days; 60 to 90 days and more than 90 days, broken down in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33543/24]

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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2543.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting endoscopy in County Cavan and County Monaghan in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [33544/24]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 2540, 2542 and 2543 together.

It is acknowledged that many patients are still waiting too long for hospital appointments and treatments.

As part of the multi-annual approach to reducing waiting lists, and just as importantly the length of time that patients are waiting, I published the 2024 Waiting List Action Plan on 27th March. Total funding of €360 million has been provided for the plan this year which sets out 19 Actions across three themes: Delivering Capacity, Reforming Scheduled Care and Enabling Scheduled Care Reform.

The Waiting List Action Plan multi-annual approach, initiated in 2021, encompasses a two-pronged approach of short-term actions to increase capacity and activity in the immediate term, and longer-term reform measures to sustainably reduce and reform hospital waiting lists and waiting times.

The 2024 Plan builds on the work of previous plans which have achieved significant progress in overall waiting list reduction and in addressing long waiting times, against a backdrop of significantly increased demand for scheduled care services. This year’s plan aims to achieve a reduction in the overall number of patients on waiting lists while three of the four overarching targets in the Plan are specifically focused on improving waiting times.

In relation to the particular query raised, the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has provided the following tables. The NTPF publishes waiting list data in standardised time-bands and Statistical Disclosure Control (SDC) techniques are applied to the data to preserve confidentiality and mitigate against identification or self-identification of individuals.

Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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2541.To ask the Minister for Health the number of people awaiting colonoscopy in County Cavan and County Monaghan in 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [33542/24]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.