Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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205. To ask the Minister for Health if he will reduce the average wait times for medical procedures in County Kerry (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23266/23]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) works with public hospitals, as opposed to with patients directly, to offer and provide the funding for treatment to clinically suitable long waiting patients who are on an inpatient/day case waiting list for surgery, having been referred on to such a list following clinical assessment by a consultant/specialist at an outpatient clinic.

However, hospitals such as University Hospital Kerry can enter in to arrangements with local private providers for a  range of services. Accordingly I have referred your question to the HSE and asked them to reply to you directly.