Let’s be clear. The public health service in heavily immigrant Ireland is in a catastrophic mess. Everyday Irish people are paying the price.

Latest figures show over 750,000 people are currently on hospital waiting lists.

More than 123,000 have been forced to wait over a year for treatment. And that’s before counting all the outpatient and diagnostic delays.

Even worse. 64% of patients on these waiting lists are waiting longer than the government’s own target times.

It’s not just a waiting list number. This means people with potentially life-threatening conditions are forced to wait months just to see a consultant. Getting treatment takes even longer.

Women with debilitating endometriosis? 747 are still stuck on waiting lists, many waiting between 3–12 months with no relief.

More than 2,700 people waited longer than the recommended timeframe for urgent colonoscopies, a test that can save lives.

We’ve also heard in recent privacy investigations that waiting lists for mental health care have reached record highs. People needing help are simply ignored.

The Dublin regime and the HSE keep telling us there’s ‘progress’. However, the average wait time across the system is still well over six months. This is according to HSE testimony to the Oireachtas.

Money is flying out the door. More than €70m is being paid to outside companies to ‘tackle’ waiting lists. Meanwhile, the core HSE continues to sputter.

This isn’t stress or inconvenience; this is systemic failure. Our hospitals are oversubscribed, under-staffed, and unfairly prioritized for political optics rather than patients.

We deserve better.

We pay some of the highest per-capita healthcare costs in Europe, but get a third-world level of access.

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