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Welcome to Ireland 2019 – Over 11,000 people are waiting more than a year for hospital procedure




Welcome to Ireland 2019, a country where you better not get sick.

Minister for Health Simon Harris and the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar have a LOT to answer for.

The wretched state of the Irish health service is once again laid bare in figures, after it emerged that almost 11,000 people have been on hospital waiting lists for over a year.

A shocking 2,507 out of these have been waiting longer than two years.

Our hapless Minister for Health Simon Harris has accepted that the waiting times are ‘unacceptably long.’

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