Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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111. To ask the Minister for Health the degree to which the treatment purchase scheme can be activated to alleviate overcrowding at hospital accident and emergency departments and waiting lists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50826/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The potential role of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) in relation to the provision of support for diagnostics for patients who present at Emergency Departments is one of a number of issues which is being considered by the HSE as part of the winter planning process.

The full details of the Winter Plan will be outlined when it is published by the HSE on 6 December.