Charles Flanagan
Question:130 Mr. Flanagan asked the Minister for Health and Children when an appointment for attendance at the Mater Hospital outpatient clinic can be arranged for a person (details supplied) in County Laois who has been informed by the consultant gastroenterologist that, as a result of budgetary restrictions at the hospital, the gastroenterology ward has been closed and the outpatients clinic facility has been withdrawn; when this person will be called; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27110/98]