Health Services Staff Dail Éireann — 2022-12-01 ============================================================ Malcolm Noonan (GP), Carlow-Kilkenny I am afraid my closing response will not give the Deputy any additional assurance. I will certainly take his concerns back to the Minister for Health. The response states that an additional consultant ophthalmic surgeon post will be required to further expand the service and that approval for the post is being examined in the context of funding made available for the HSE in 2023. That is pretty vague. We will try to get a more specific response on that for the Deputy. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2022-12-01/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:51:22+00:00 Sitting date: 2022-12-01