Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The answer I gave the Deputy is the one I had to hand. I am not charged with dealing with this issue day to day. Those who are, namely, the management of the hospital and the Minister for Health, may be able to give the Deputy a more up-to-date answer. I am told that some elective orthopaedic surgeries have now been provided in University Hospital Galway and that, between 20 October and 29 January this year, 88 patients had procedures carried out at University Hospital Galway that would otherwise have been carried out at Merlin Park.

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