Colm Keaveney (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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178. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 557 of 16 June 2015, his views on the case of a person (details supplied) in County Galway who is verging on becoming totally blind as a result of rapidly accelerating cataracts, who is enduring extreme mental distress and anxiety as a result of swiftly deteriorating eyesight and who has been denied the comfort and benefit of any information whatsoever regarding a date for an appointment at Galway University Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26814/15]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Under the Health Act 2004, the Health Service Executive (HSE) is required to manage and deliver, or arrange to be delivered on its behalf, health and personal social services. Section 6 of the HSE Governance Act 2013 bars the Minister for Health from directing the HSE to provide a treatment or a personal service to any individual or to confer eligibility on any individual. In relation to your further query in this matter, 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.