Louis O'Hara (Galway East, Sinn Fein)
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3125. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of money paid to private hospitals via the national treatment purchase fund from the outsourcing of waiting list elective in-patient and day-case surgeries at Galway University Hospital and Portiuncula University Hospital, for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; the amount of money paid to private hospitals via the national treatment purchase fund from the outsourcing of waiting list elective in-patient and day-case surgeries at Portiuncula University Hospital for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025; the amount of money paid to private hospitals via the national treatment purchase fund from the outsourcing of waiting list elective in-patient and day-case surgeries at Merlin Park University Hospital for the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025, all in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43347/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The Government remains committed to increasing capacity in the public system and until that capacity is in place to meet the 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 in the public and private systems, through a coordinated approach by the HSE and the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). This is in addition to longer term reform measures.

This approach has 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.

In relation to the particular queries raised, the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) has provided the table below to my Department.