Willie Penrose (Longford-Westmeath, Labour)
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143. To ask the Minister for Health if, in view of the unacceptable delays for cataract surgery and limited services for children with ophthalmology issues, he will consider the roll-out of the Sligo cataract scheme nationally with optometrists and hospital eye departments working together and further permit the roll-out of a national scheme to enable children that do not need medical or surgical management to be examined in the community by optometrists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25907/19]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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As this is a service matter it has been referred to the HSE for reply to the Deputy.