Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 588: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will assist in having a person (details supplied) in County Cork referred to the National Treatment Purchase Fund for a specific operation. [31104/08]

Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 589: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will arrange for a person (details supplied) in County Cork to be referred to a specific fund as they have been waiting 18 months for an outpatient appointment. [31105/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 588 and 589 together.

The management of out-patient waiting lists is a matter for the Health Service Executive and the individual hospitals concerned. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular cases raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the cases investigated and to reply directly to the Deputy in each case.