Vol. 489 No. 3
161 Mr. Haughey asked the Minister for Health and Children when a person (details supplied) in Dublin 5 will have a heart bypass operation in the Mater Hospital, Dublin 7; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7879/98]
As the determination of in-patient appointments is a matter for the hospital authorities in the first instance, based on a clinical assessment of need, I have asked the chief executive officer of the Mater Misericordiae Hospital to investigate the position regarding this patient. Given the particular circumstances of this case, I have requested that he reply to the Deputy directly as a matter of urgency.
