James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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Question 249: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the budget 2007 financial allocation of €20 million for the development of 100 new multidisciplinary primary care teams was fully expended on that purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22543/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The key objective of the Primary Care Strategy is to give people direct access to integrated multi-disciplinary teams of general practitioners, nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, home helps and others.

Specific additional funding was provided in each of the years 2006 to 2008 to facilitate the roll-out of extra primary care teams. Some of this funding was used to appoint extra frontline professional staff. The HSE has advised me that it was unable to use the remaining funding as planned because it had to cover higher than anticipated costs in other parts of its services, particularly in acute hospitals, within its overall budget allocation.

Clearly, the HSE has to operate within the resources made available to it in any given year. However, this should not mean that new funding provided by the Government for specific service enhancements is redirected to other purposes. I have emphasised to the HSE the importance I attach to the continued development and roll-out of primary care teams.

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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Question 250: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the budget 2007 financial allocation of €5 million to develop services for persons suffering from chronic diseases was fully expended on that purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22544/08]

Mary Wallace (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy's question relates to the funding, management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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Question 251: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the budget 2007 financial allocation of €2.5 million for the development of two additional sexual assault treatment units in Galway and the midlands area was fully expended on that purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22545/08]

Mary Wallace (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy's question relates to the funding, management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.

James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)
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Question 252: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if the budget 2007 financial allocation of €4.5 million to improve services to the victims of sexual and domestic violence was fully expended on that purpose; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22546/08]

Mary Wallace (Meath East, Fianna Fail)
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The Deputy's question relates to the funding, management and delivery of health and personal social services, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, my Department has requested the Parliamentary Affairs Division of the Executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.