Written answers
Thursday, 16 October 2008
Department of Health and Children
Hospital Services
7:00 pm
Ned O'Keeffe (Cork East, Fianna Fail)
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Question 30: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will arrange for a person (details supplied) in County Cork to be admitted to hospital for a procedure or if she will refer them to the National Treatment Purchase Fund. [35287/08]
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 and funding for all health services has been provided as part of its overall Vote. Therefore, the Executive is the appropriate body to consider the particular case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.
Patients waiting more than three months on a surgical waiting list may qualify for treatment under the National Treatment Purchase Fund. It is open to the person in question or anyone acting on their behalf to contact the Fund directly in relation to their case.
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