The Health Minister Simon Harris has been told to "get a grip" over hospital waiting lists for children. Fianna Fáil says almost 42,000 children have been left waiting for outpatient appointments in Dublin hospitals. The party's John Lahart says that reflects badly on today's announcements about the National Development Plan. He said: "The impression is that everything is rising in this country, not just economically but right across the spectrum, but it's not applying in health. "We have a modern, wealthy country where 42,000 children are still waiting for outpatient appointments, 15,000 of them waiting for over a year, 500 in Dublin waiting for over 18 months."

Source: Evening echo February 16, 2018 07:18 UTC