Niall Collins (Limerick, Fianna Fail)
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Question 173: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a person (details supplied) in County Limerick is on the waiting list for a procedure; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7870/11]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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The management of hospital services generally, including 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.

In the event that a person is on an in-patient waiting list, and subject to the resources available to it and the overall waiting list situation in the hospital concerned, the National Treatment Purchase Fund may arrange treatment for patients who have been on a surgical waiting list for more than three months.