Billy Timmins (Wicklow, Independent)
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524. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Wicklow will be called for an operation in view of the fact that they have been on a waiting list for over 15 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49461/14]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The National Waiting List Management Policy, A standardised approach to managing scheduled care treatment for in-patient, day case and planned procedures, January 2014,has been developed to ensure that all administrative, managerial and clinical staff follow an agreed national minimum standard for the management and administration of waiting lists for scheduled care. This policy, which has been adopted by the Health Service Executive, sets out the processes that hospitals are to implement to manage waiting lists.

In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up with them.

Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Socialist Party)
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525. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time a person (details supplied) in Dublin 24 who is a patient of Tallaght hospital can expect to wait for essential surgery on their upper arm; his views on the length of the waiting list for elective upper limb surgery; and the plans that exist to clear the waiting list. [49468/14]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The National Waiting List Management Policy, A standardised approach to managing scheduled care treatment for in-patient, day case and planned procedures, January 2014, has been developed to ensure that all administrative, managerial and clinical staff follow an agreed national minimum standard for the management and administration of waiting lists for scheduled care. This policy, which has been adopted by the Health Service Executive, sets out the processes that hospitals are to implement to manage waiting lists.

In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up with them.