Michael McGrath (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 162: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied) in County Cork [40979/10]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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The scheduling of patients for hospital treatment is a matter for the consultant concerned in each case and is determined on the basis of clinical need. Should the patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment, he/she would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant involved.

The management of hospital services generally, including 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 case raised by the Deputy. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the case investigated and to reply directly to the Deputy.