133. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for eye cataract surgery; the reason the person has so far had three appointments scheduled, cancelled and re-scheduled; the guarantee that will be provided that the latest appointment, re-scheduled for 2016, will not be cancelled yet again; the reason this person has been forced to suffer the indignity of having been offered this procedure three times in the private sector with immediate scheduling by the same consultant whose appointments have been cancelled in the public sector three times, at a cost in excess of €3000, which sum this person has no access to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36807/15]

Summary

133. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) in County Galway will receive an appointment for eye cataract surgery; the reason the person has so far had three appointments scheduled, cancelled and re-scheduled; the guarantee that will be provided that the latest appointment, re-scheduled for 2016, will not be cancelled yet again; the reason this person has been forced to suffer the indignity of having been offered this procedure three times in the private sector with immediate scheduling by the same consultant whose appointments have been cancelled in the public sector three times, at a cost in excess of €3000, which sum this person has no access to; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36807/15]

This text is taken from the official record. PoliticalRepo does not editorialize.

Timeline

No timeline events have been ingested for this record yet.

Votes

No vote records are attached yet.

Versions

No version snapshots stored. Document URLs remain at the source.

Documents

1 official file

• Hospital Appointments Status

  xml · EN · 21 October 2015

  ViewDownloadOpen at official source

Sponsors

No sponsors or actors listed by the source.

Related records

No cross-record relationships stored yet.