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The State publishes the numbers. We turn them into straight answers: how long the hospital queue really is, where the childcare places are, and who is behind every Irish company.

TryBeaumont HospitalCompanies in CorkOrthopaedicsCrèches in GalwaySector explorer
692,529waiting for a first outpatient appointment323,922active companies, each with a free profile174,037registered childcare places in 3,919 services46hospitals tracked month by month since 2014

Questions, answered

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Is the hospital waiting list getting longer?
Yes. +10.5%

in a year: 692,529 people now wait for a first outpatient appointment.

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How many companies were set up in the past year?
28,929

against 16,772 dissolved: a net gain of 12,157.

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Which hospital has the longest outpatient list?
Beaumont Hospital

56,013 waiting, 20.7% of them for over a year.

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Where are new crèches opening?
Dublin

68 new services registered in 12 months, out of 312 nationally.

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Where are you most likely to wait over 18 months?
St. Columcille's Hospital

57.7% of its outpatients have waited more than 18 months.

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Which foreign group owns the most Irish companies?
Aercap Holdings N.V.

53 Irish subsidiaries on record. 1,010 companies have a foreign parent.

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Which specialty has the biggest queue?
Orthopaedics

85,258 people waiting for a first appointment, +17.1% on a year ago.

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Which address is home to the most companies?
The Black Church

1,546 active companies are registered at D07 P4AX.

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Your county in numbers

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Northern IrelandCarlow: 3kCavan: 4kClare: 7.2kCork: 34kDonegal: 8.3kDublin: 132kGalway: 15kKerry: 8.1kKildare: 13kKilkenny: 5kLaois: 3.6kLeitrim: 1.6kLimerick: 11kLongford: 1.9kLouth: 8.8kMayo: 6kMeath: 11kMonaghan: 3.9kOffaly: 3.7kRoscommon: 2.8kSligo: 3kTipperary: 8.3kWaterford: 6.1kWestmeath: 5.6kWexford: 8.2kWicklow: 8.4k
Active companies1.6k – 132k

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Hospital waiting lists
692,529

people waiting for a first outpatient appointment (Sep 2026), 18.0% for over a year. Every hospital and specialty, back to 2014.

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Companies
323,922

active Irish companies: status, activity, filing record, foreign parent, employment permits, State contracts and sector benchmarks.

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Crèches & childcare
174,037

registered childcare places in 3,919 services, 312 of them new in the past year. Supply by county and town.

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Sector explorer
57

measures across every sector and county: margins, pay, exports, job churn, business confidence and filing discipline. Plot any two against each other.

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Just registered

The newest companies on the CRO register.

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