Ivor Callely (Dublin North Central, Fianna Fail)
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Question 271: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children the level of funding available to the health services in 2005 and 2006 allocations; the process the Health Service Executive has undertaken regarding the application of casemix; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15363/06]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The Revised Estimates Volume for Public Services 2006 outlines the amount of funding available to the Health Vote group for the 2005 and the estimate for 2006. The gross total, including capital, available to my Department and the Health Service Executive in 2005 was €11,872.218 million. The Office of the Minister for Children under the Minister of State with responsibility for children was established in 2006 and is now included in the Health Vote group. Therefore, the estimated gross total, including capital, for my Department, the HSE and the OMC in the current year is €13,816.146 million.

The casemix budget model outturns generated in December 2005, based on 2004 activity and costs, for inclusion as part of the 2006 financial allocations for the 37 hospitals involved in the national programme, have been passed to the HSE and have been issued to each hospital involved. It is agreed between my Department and the HSE that casemix will continue to be used as a central pillar in acute hospital funding policy and the incremental broadening of the programme, as set out in my Department's statement of strategy, will be a critical issue in its development.