Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

7. To ask the Minister for Health the extent to which patients presenting for what are deemed to be non-emergency or non-urgent procedures are put on waiting lists for prolonged periods, often in very severe pain which results in great distress for them and their families; the effort being made to examine such cases with a view to ensuring the alleviation of pain becomes an issue in the determination of priority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27007/14]

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