Fianna Fáil’s Health Spokesperson, Stephen Donnelly TD has said that it is a scandal that 9,864 people aged 75 or older were left lying on trolleys in Emergency Departments for longer than 24 hours in the first eight months of 2018. “These latest figures represent a serious indictment of Fine Gael’s management of the public […]

Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Stephen Donnelly has described as disgraceful new figures which show that 7,572 children are waiting over two years waiting for an orthodontic appointment.  New figures released to the Wicklow TD shows that there are 18,135 children in total on the waiting list. The figures were collated at the end of June this […]

Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Stephen Donnelly has responded to the latest hospital waiting list figures, which show varying trends between outpatient and inpatient data. “Outpatient lists have hit another record high with 515,547 waiting to be seen, with almost 150,000 of these patients waiting over a year. It’s just not acceptable that people should wait […]

Fianna Fáil Health Spokesperson Stephen Donnelly has welcomed the €20 million increase in the National Treatment Purchase Fund in Budget 2019.  This is the third successive increase secured by Fianna Fáil under the Confidence and Supply arrangement. Deputy Donnelly explained, “Fine Gael has presided over the highest waiting lists ever witnessed in this country.  In […]

Fianna Fáil Spokesperson on Health Stephen Donnelly TD has said that if four relatively easy to implement policy changes were made in Irish hospitals, the impact of winter trolley crisis could be lessened. Deputy Donnelly said, “Obviously, the long-term solution is to increase bed capacity in our public hospitals, but in the meantime we need […]