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Health (Waiting Lists) Bill 2024
- Sponsor
- David Cullinane · Sinn Féin
- Introduced
- 25 Apr 2024
- Last updated
- 2 May 2025
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Minister for Health must set specific performance targets for maximum waiting times across health and social care services, creating a legal basis for wait-time policies.
- National Treatment Purchase Fund Board expands from publishing hospital waiting lists only to collecting and publishing all health and social care waiting list data.
- Chief Executive of National Treatment Purchase Fund Board becomes accountable to the Minister for Health and to Oireachtas committees for managing the organisation.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage33rd Dáil25 Apr 2024
- Second Stage34th Dáil17 Dec 2025
Debates
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