Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 71: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children what systems are in place to ensure that work for the NTPF is not done by consultants during times that they are listed for public work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9856/05]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 72: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the lessons which can be learned from the case of persons (details supplied). [9857/05]

Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 74: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if there are any circumstances in which private patients who have paid a fee to a private consultant can obtain treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; the checks that are in place to deal with this in Beaumont, the Mater and the Children's Hospital, Temple Street. [9859/05]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 71, 72 and 74 together.

The national treatment purchase fund, NTPF, which is now a statutory body, is charged with responsibility for arranging treatment for those patients waiting longest for admission to hospital. To date, the NTPF has arranged treatment for some 27,000 patients.

My Department has asked the chief executive of the NTPF to reply directly to the Deputy on the issues raised.