Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)
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Question 125: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a person (details supplied) in County Mayo is on a waiting list for cataract removal since the end of December 2005 and will not have their operation until May 2006 and that when the National Treatment Purchase Fund was contacted they could not accommodate them until July 2006; her views on whether this system is working as promised; the alternatives which are available to this person; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14241/06]

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, the Department of Health and Children has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this case investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.