314 Ms Lynch asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason there is a two-year waiting list for orthopaedic surgery in the Cork area; her views on whether such a delay is causing undue hardship and pain to many of the 3,000 patients in Cork awaiting this type of surgery; the reasons the recommendation made by Comhairle in 1994 to appoint two extra orthopaedic surgeons to the region has not been acted on in the intervening twelve years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35691/06]

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314 Ms Lynch asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason there is a two-year waiting list for orthopaedic surgery in the Cork area; her views on whether such a delay is causing undue hardship and pain to many of the 3,000 patients in Cork awaiting this type of surgery; the reasons the recommendation made by Comhairle in 1994 to appoint two extra orthopaedic surgeons to the region has not been acted on in the intervening twelve years; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35691/06]

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