Richard Bruton (Dublin North Central, Fine Gael)
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Question 287: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the target period for arranging a consultant appointment to follow up an eye defect identified in a primary school by examination; if either her Department or the Health Service Executive has a system in place for monitoring the performance against this standard; and if her attention has been drawn to the shortcomings in certain parts of Dublin's northside where a wait of well over a year elapses between the identification of a defect and a follow up consultation. [5185/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The Deputy's question relates to the management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.