A Sunday Tribune survey found that the backlog is worst at Sligo Regional hospital while Galway people faced the shortest wait: two weeks at both Portiuncula Hospital in Ballinasloe and Galway University Hospital.

The infectious diseases clinic at Dublin's Mater Hospital said the next available appointment for a full STI screen was in three to four weeks. At Limerick Regional Hospital, the next available appointment was in five weeks' time. Eight weeks was the wait at Carlow District hospital, and seven weeks at Waterford Regional hospital.

At south Tipperary general hospital, Clonmel, the next available appointment was in six weeks' time, while the wait was four weeks at Tralee general hospital.

Galway University hospital and the GUIDE sexual health clinic at Dublin's St James's hospital are the country's only two hospitals providing walk-in STI screening.