Written answers
Wednesday, 4 May 2005
Department of Health and Children
Mental Health Services
9:00 pm
Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 173: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the budget to the mental health service as a percentage of the total health budget for each year since 1997. [14202/05]
Tim O'Malley (Limerick East, Progressive Democrats)
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The following table shows the budget of the mental health service as a percentage of the total health budget for each year from 1997 to 2004.
| 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 |
| â'¬000m | â'¬000m | â'¬000m | â'¬000m | â'¬000m | â'¬000m | â'¬000m | â'¬000m |
| 326,841 | 347,471 | 394,546 | 433,654 | 497,061 | 563,690 | 619,466 | 716,798 |
| 8.96% | 8.60% | 8.21% | 7.73% | 7.09% | 6.90% | 6.82% | 7.34% |
In 2005, the Estimate for spending on mental health services as set out in the Health Service Executive Vote in the recently published Revised Estimates for Public Services 2005 is €766 million. This equates to 7.1% of the total current Health Service Executive funding of €10.975 billion when account is taken of a once-off technical provision of €217 million arising from the establishment of that Vote.
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