Written answers
Thursday, 24 June 2021
Department of Health
Hospital Waiting Lists
Maurice Quinlivan (Limerick City, Sinn Fein)
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409. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding the case of person (details supplied) who has been waiting over four years for an appointment at the Croom Orthopaedic Hospital, Limerick; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [26326/21]
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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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.
As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to restore its IT capacity and resume normal services. Members of the Oireachtas will be advised as soon as the HSE is again in a position to provide responses to PQs and are encouraged to resubmit their Parliamentary Questions at that point
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