Eamon Gilmore (Dún Laoghaire, Labour)

It is a matter Deputy Durkan, in particular, has been raising as have some of my party colleagues. There is an article in one of the newspapers today stating that although the HSE had committed to giving replies to those queries within 15 days, less than half of the queries are now answered within that period of time.

An example of this was supplied to me by Deputy Quinn. It was a parliamentary question that he tabled here in February 2010. He got a reply on 9 February 2010 stating that as this was a service-----

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