Ciarán Lynch (Cork South Central, Labour)
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626. To ask the Minister for Health if funding allocated to the ophthalmology unit at Cork University Hospital has been reduced resulting in increased waiting lists; if he will confirm that the treatment programme for cataract removal has been restricted to two patients per week; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2782/13]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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The funding pressures now being experienced in the health services mean that the acute sector must reduce its costs in order to deliver the agreed level of activity within the resources available to it. This means that we must concentrate on maximising efficiency and getting the best possible services for patients from the budgets available to us. In relation to the specific queries raised by the Deputy, as these are service issues they have been referred to the HSE for direct reply.