Dáil Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 19 Mar 1997

Vol. 476 No. 5

Written Answers - Hospital Services.

Cecilia Keaveney

Question:

86 Cecilia Keaveney asked the Minister for Health the number of patients which have left counties Donegal and Leitrim for examinations or operations in each of the Dublin hospitals from March 1996 to date in 1997; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7494/97]

Minister for Health (Mr. Noonan,

Limerick East): The information requested by the Deputy is not routinely collected by my Department. However, the North-Western Health Board may be able to provide this information and the chief executive officer of the board has been requested to respond directly to the Deputy in this matter.