Mary Lou McDonald (Dublin Central, Sinn Fein)
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818. To ask the Minister for Health the status of an operation in respect of a person (details supplied) in Dublin 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41067/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, 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.

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 should take the matter up with the consultant and the hospital involved. In relation to the specific case raised, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.

Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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820. To ask the Minister for Health further to his statement on 8 December 2016 that the HSE had advised that between August 2016 and December 2016 there had been a reduction of over 8,000 patients on the inpatient and day case waiting list under the waiting list action plan either through treatment provision, clinical validation or being given a date for their procedure to take place, the numbers that received treatment provision; the number removed from the list following clinical validation; the number removed having been given a date for their procedure to take place; and if the number removed following receipt of a date for their procedure received that procedure prior to December 2016. [41087/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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In August 2016, I requested that the HSE develop an Action Plan on Waiting Lists focused on those waiting the longest. The Action Plan set a target to reduce the number of patients waiting 18 months or over for Inpatient or Daycase procedure by 50% by the end of 2016. December 2016 waiting list performance data confirmed that the HSE achieved its target. Since the commencement of the Action Plan, in achieving the target, 11,519 patients have come off the Inpatient/Daycase Waiting List through treatment provision, scheduling of treatment in the next six weeks or clinical validation. The actual number of people waiting for procedures for 18 months or over at the end of December was 1,738. There was no patient waiting over 36 months.

In relation to the particular query raised, as this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.