Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 126: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the National Treatment Purchase Fund has investigated an application in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45063/09]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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The primary remit of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) is to facilitate treatment for those public patients waiting longest for surgery. At the end of November there were ninety-three patients waiting for longer than 12 months for surgery at Tallaght Hospital. The NTPF is working with the hospital to facilitate treatment for these patients quickly and thereafter to focus on patients waiting for less than twelve months. The NTPF will endeavour to facilitate the person whose case the Deputy has raised with treatment as soon as possible, while at the same time fulfilling its mandate in relation to persons waiting longest for treatment. It is open to the patient's general practitioner to contact the hospital about his case, if he is of the opinion that his condition merits more immediate attention.