Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, United Left) | Oireachtas source

6. To ask the Minister for Health further to the reply to Parliamentary Question No. 16 of 22 October 2015 in which he stated that he had put in place maximum permissible waiting times for inpatient, day-case and outpatient treatment of 18 months by 30 June and 15 months by year end, why there are 13 patients waiting for spinal surgery, two of whom have come to this Deputy's attention, who are waiting since July 2014 in Galway University Hospital; his views on whether scoliosis patients with 70% to 80% spinal curvature should be subject to these waiting times; if there should be a maximum permissible waiting time of three to six months for these patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42902/15]

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