249 Deputy Bernard Allen asked the Minister for Health and Children further to Parliamentary Question No. 130 of 1 December 2009 the position regarding an appointment for a surgical procedure at Cork University Hospital in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [20174/10]

I regret that due to industrial action I am not in a position to provide a substantive response to your Parliamentary Question. If this matter remains of continuing concern to you, however, I would invite you to raise it with me again in due course. However, in the meantime, should the patient's general practitioner consider that the patient's condition warrants an earlier appointment, he/she would be in the best position to take the matter up with the consultant involved.