Waiting list figures called into question
Enda Kenny has denied that figures for hospital waiting lists are deliberately being massaged to hide their true extent.
But he's admitted last night's RTE documentary on hospital waiting lists was "hard to watch".
Dáil business this afternoon has been dominated by the discovery that nearly 49,000 people are waiting for hospital treatment but don't appear on official waiting lists.
Enda Kenny says that's been the case for 15 years, and wasn't engineered by the current government:
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