My question is on waiting lists in hospitals.

Ms Aisling Corcoran, a young woman from Castlebar, County Mayo, had an infected rod removed from her back in 2013. This issue has been raised in the Dáil over a number of years. She is still waiting. She was subsequently removed from Galway to Tallaght. She was due to have an operation on 4 September.

This is not a question on promised legislation.

This is very important.

Of course it is.

It needs to be raised. The operation was cancelled. On 21 November, it was again cancelled. This girl has not been waiting three months, six months or a year; she has been waiting nearly five years for an operation on her back that is badly needed. She goes to work every morning and has to come home early because of the pain in her back. I want a Government intervention to deal with this issue. If the operation cannot be done in Ireland, it should be done by experts abroad. I would like to hear the Taoiseach's response.

I suggest that the Deputy submit a parliamentary question or raise this as a Topical Issue.

I have been submitting this matter for the past five years.

This is an individual case about which I have no information. I am sure it is an extremely important issue, particularly for the person affected and her family. However, the Deputy is providing no assistance to that person by raising an individual case during Questions on Promised Legislation. As a hard-working Deputy, she would know that the best way she can get a result for her constituent is by contacting the HSE's parliamentary affairs division.

She is not my constituent, she is from Galway. I have already contacted the HSE's parliamentary affairs division.