Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail)
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211. To ask the Minister for Health if he will expedite a hospital appointment to be scheduled in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Westmeath; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36315/14]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The scheduling of appointments for patients is a matter for the hospital to which the patient has been referred. Should a patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment, he or she would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant and hospital involved. In relation to the specific case raised by the Deputy, as this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for direct reply.