Jack Wall (Kildare South, Labour)
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Question 90: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) will qualify for a hip replacement operation under the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22515/10]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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I wish to advise the Deputy that due to industrial action affecting the Health Service Executive it is not possible for the Executive to supply the information requested. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with the HSE again in due course.

Subject to the resources available to it, the National Treatment Purchase Fund arranges treatment for patients who have been on a surgical waiting list for more than three months. It is open to the person in question or anyone acting on their behalf to contact the Fund directly in relation to their case.