Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 131: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 171 of 17 April 2008, when a person (details supplied) in County Kildare will receive a date for their operation; if the reply received from the Health Service Executive can be determined as a directive to the National Treatment Purchase Fund from Tallaght General Hospital that files and so on in relation to the applicant will be made available to the NTPF for their processing of the case and that there will be no hold up in relation to the provision of the date for the operation other than finding a suitable hospital to carry out such an operation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17198/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The primary remit of the National Treatment Purchase Fund is to facilitate patients who are longest on waiting lists for surgery.

The scheduling of admissions is a matter for the relevant Consultant and is determined on the basis of medical priority and having regard to available capacity. The question of the treatment appropriate to the circumstances of each individual patient is a matter of clinical responsibility over which I have no control.

In the event that treatment is not readily available and should the medical condition of the person in question disimprove, their General Practitioner would be in the best position to emphasise the urgency of her case to the Consultant directly.

My Department has asked the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to respond to the Deputy directly on the operational matter raised by him.