Mary Mitchell O'Connor (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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149. To ask the Minister for Health if a child (details supplied) who is on a two-year waiting list to see a professor of genetics in Crumlin hospital in Dublin 12 will be funded, through cross-Border funding, to see a geneticist; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13626/15]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The Health Service Executive operates the EU Directive on Patients’ Rights in Cross Border Healthcare in Ireland under Statutory Instrument 203 of 2014. The Directive provides rules for the reimbursement to patients’ of the cost of receiving treatment abroad, where the patient would be entitled to such treatment in their home Member State (Member State of Affiliation) and supplements the rights that patients already have at EU level through the legislation on the coordination of social security schemes (EU Regulation 883/04). The Directive seeks to ensure a clear and transparent framework for the provision of cross-border healthcare within the EU, for those occasions where the care patients seek is provided in another Member State rather than in their home country.

The Health Service Executive has been asked to examine this matter and to reply to the Deputy as soon as possible. If the Deputy has not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days, please contact my Private Office who will follow up the matter with them.