Tom Hayes (Tipperary South, Fine Gael)
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Question 347: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if children on the waiting list for occupational, speech and language therapy, or psychiatric care who are on the waiting list for more than three months can use the National Treatment Purchase Fund to access these services automatically. [27226/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) was established to arrange treatment for patients who have been waiting longest on surgical, in-patient waiting lists. Under the provisions of its establishment order, the NTPF currently arranges hospital-based treatment. As the type of services the Deputy refers to do not require in-patient care, they do not fall currently within the remit of the NTPF.