Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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The committee has discussed the issue of cataracts and their removal over the past 12 months in particular. As Mr. Mullaniff said, patients are on waiting lists, which can be very long, and that can be very challenging for people who live alone and depend entirely on motorised transport and so on. Has Vision Ireland had occasion to engage with the HSE to ask it to change its strategy whereby if a patient is forced to go for private treatment while on a waiting list, unless he or she has been approved by the HSE, he or she would make no contribution to the cost? Has any such discussion taken place?