424. Deputy Colm Keaveney asked the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for orthopaedic surgery to treat scoliosis curves and the number of such surgeries carried out in Galway University Hospital, by month, from January 2011 to 2015 to date; the number of such surgeries it is planned to carry out in the hospital, by month, from December 2015 to June 2016; and if he will make a statement on the matter [42623/15]

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