Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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758. To ask the Minister for Health if it is considered good health policy to deny a person (details supplied) a contribution towards their treatment, who received private ophthalmic treatment for cataracts, given the delay in being seeing and urgent nature of the requirement to have treatment, and that their sight loss was so rapid as to leave them confined to their home twenty-four-seven, given that the public health system should be in a position to deal with such patients and that, as a result, they are being financially penalised for the urgent nature of their treatment which would otherwise be available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36641/24]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.