Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Labour)
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Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the number of patients awaiting orthopaedic appointments at Beaumont Hospital; the consultant rheumatologist/patient ratio nationally; and the number of patients on waiting lists nationally for neurology/urology, ophthalmology and plastic surgery. [11090/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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Operational responsibility for the management and delivery of health and personal social services is a matter for the Health Service Executive (HSE) and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. The management of waiting lists for non-surgical procedures is an operational matter for the HSE and the hospitals involved. My Department has therefore requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange for a reply directly to the Deputy on the issues raised.

Statutory responsibility for the collation, management and publication of data on waiting times and numbers of persons waiting for surgical procedures rests with the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF). My Department has, therefore, asked the Chief Executive of the NTPF to reply directly to the Deputy in relation to the information requested.