Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent)
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162. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a hospital appointment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30471/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Every effort is being made to maintain cancer services at present, with a particular focus on urgent and time-sensitive cases.

While radiotherapy services were particularly impacted by the recent ransomware attack, services have recommenced, with private hospital capacity also being utilised to increase patient throughput . Some patients who had been receiving their radiotherapy in Cork University Hospital have been transferred to the Bons Secours, Cork, and we are advised that this is working well.

In so far as this Parliamentary Question relates to an individual patient, it is an operational issue which 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 ransomware attack, which 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.