Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)

Question 93: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the reason a patient was sent from Dublin to Limerick by taxi at a rate of €600 for minor eye surgery under the national treatment purchase fund while other patients have been denied access to treatment by private hospitals due to the fact that the hospitals had been informed that the national treatment purchase fund has filled its quota of patients for the year 2005; the steps she will take to ensure that the Comptroller and Auditor General requests a full review of the national treatment fund in 2005 to assess whether it is providing value for money; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29481/05]

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