Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal, Sinn Fein)
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1311. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money paid to private hospitals via the NTPF from the outsourcing of waiting list elective in-patient and day-case surgeries at Letterkenny University Hospital, for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025. [29148/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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It is acknowledged that many patients are still waiting too long for hospital appointments and treatments. I am conscious of the burden that this places on patients and their families.

I published the Waiting List Action Plan (WLAP) for 2025 on February 12th, representing this Government’s commitment to reducing waiting times for patients and improving access to hospital care.

In keeping with this commitment, significant funding of €420m was allocated to the Waiting List Action Plan for 2025, €190m for the HSE and €230m for the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF).

With the 2025 plan, we are continuing to build upon the progress delivered to date under the multi annual action plan approach, progressing towards the ultimate vision of a public healthcare service in which everyone has timely access to high-quality scheduled care, where and when they need it.

Until the capacity is in place in the public system to meet increased levels of demand, it’s appropriate that we make use of all available additional capacity in the public and private systems to ensure that patients have access to the care they need.

Accordingly, the Waiting List Action Plan approach includes targeting the delivery of additional capacity for patients through insourcing in the public system and outsourcing to the private system.

In relation to the particular query raised by the Deputy, the NTPF provided my Department with the information below setting out the amounts paid to private hospitals by the NTPF for the outsourcing of inpatient and day case procedures for public patients from Letterkenny University Hospital, from 2020 to 2025.