Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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426. To ask the Minister for Health if there have been two spinal surgeon consultants appointed recently in Tallaght hospital to deal with the waiting lists. [10548/14]

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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I am advised that Tallaght Hospital has not appointed two spinal surgeons in the recent past. Rather, Tallaght Hospital is working with the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and the HSE to explore solutions that can address spinal service needs across both hospitals and this process will be informed by the ongoing work of the National Clinical Care Programme for Orthopaedics in developing a national model of care for spinal patients. Tallaght Hospital has, however, recently appointed a second consultant orthopaedic surgeon, who specialises in pelvic acetabular trauma. In addition a new upper limb orthopaedic surgeon has been recruited and is due to take up post in a number of weeks.