asked the Minister for Health the number of patients on the waiting list from Waterford, Wexford, Carlow and Kilkenny for the orthopaedic clinic at Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel, County Tipperary.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Cashel (Tipperary) Hospital.
19.
I propose to take Questions Nos. 17, 18 and 19 together.
The information requested is contained in a tabular statement which I propose to have circulated with the Official Report.
Following is the statement:
|
County |
No. of Hip Joint replacement operations performed at Kil- creene Hospital in period 1 January 1983 - 22 April 1983 |
Average waiting period for Hip Joint Replacement Operations (months) |
|
South Tipperary |
7 |
17.1 |
|
Kilkenny |
4 |
5.2 |
|
Wexford |
14 |
8.8 |
|
Waterford |
3 |
18.4 |
|
Carlow |
4 |
6.8 |
As out-patient clinics at Our Lady's Hospital, Cashel, cater only for persons from South Tipperary, there are no patients from the other counties on the waiting list for the orthopaedic clinic at Cashel.
Is it not a fact that in relation to an orthopaedic surgeon for South Tipperary that this position——
I am reluctant to cut in on the Deputy but we have been trying to establish a practice whereby we do not have supplementary questions on tabular statements.
We have not.
This is the second time today a supplementary of mine was refused.
I am sure that is just a coincidence. The Chair would prefer if Deputies did not try to put hypothetical questions.
This is not hypothetical. In 1980 Comhairle na nOispedeál sanctioned a fourth orthopaedic surgeon to represent the South Tipperary area. To date that surgeon has not been appointed.
That is a totally different question.
Dáil reform my foot.
The remaining Questions will appear on tomorrow's Order Paper.