Emmet Stagg (Kildare North, Labour)
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Question 934: To ask the Minister for Health and Children further to the recent publication of the National Development Plan, the amount of funding being set aside for State community care units; the criteria for the building of same in distinct areas; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2996/07]

Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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The Government's sustained high level of investment in health care has enabled the completion and commissioning of numerous new facilities in both the acute and the non-acute sectors.This year, the sum available for expenditure in health under the Health Service Executive's capital plan is €559.5 million and over the period of the NDP the figure is €4.9 billion.

The HSE has responsibility for the planning and management of capital projects in the health sector, including the development referred to in the Deputy's question. This includes responsibility for considering new capital proposals or progressing those in the health capital programme. My Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have the matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.