Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 716: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist in having a person (details supplied) in County Cork called to attend hospital; and if her attention has been drawn to the fact that they have been told there is a waiting list of four years. [1482/07]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular issue raised by the Deputy.

My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

Patients waiting more than three months on a surgical waiting list may qualify for treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund. It is open to the person in question in this case, or anyone acting on his behalf, to contact the Fund directly.