Over 100,000 Irish children awaiting care with a third on hospital waiting list for more than a year

The Irish Hospital Consultants Association (IHCA) has expressed its extreme concern at the new record number of children now waiting for an appointment to be treated or assessed in public hospitals.

There are 100,089 children now on some form of NTPF waiting list.

The "unacceptably long child waiting lists" are as a result of the difficulty in filling permanent consultant posts and decade long capacity deficits, the IHCA say.