Colm Keaveney
Question:167. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health his plans to provide cover for the absence-on-leave of a consultant general paediatrician in charge of diabetes and endocrinology at University Hospital Limerick; the reason being that in the current absence of said consultant (details supplied) a seven-year old child with acute diabetes, pre-approved for a pump to treat the condition with the family fully trained to use the pump and said pump already ordered, manufactured and awaiting the family at University Hospital Limerick, cannot be issued with said pump in the absence of a qualified consultant to release it; the reason no prospective definitive date can be supplied for a return to duties of the existing consultant or the recruitment of a replacement consultant to deal with this issue of a critical life-changing pump for this child in desperate need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35094/15]
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