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

There is no excuse for a person waiting 17 months for an operation. It is 15 months for Aisling who had to get rods taken out of her back previously. Since then, she has been waiting for surgery. She is in terrible pain. The Minister cannot stand over this. He must address University Hospital Galway, albeit not so much Crumlin where issues have moved on and he is trying to deal with it. I want to be able to put down a question in one month's time on University Hospital Galway to which the Minister will reply that eight or nine of the 13 patients have been addressed and that no patient will have to wait for a scoliosis surgery for more than three months. Anything else is unacceptable. The Minister is getting away with it.

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