Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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Question 191: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the projected operating budget for 2010; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39567/09]

Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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Question 192: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the annual operating budget for 2009; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39568/09]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 191 and 192 together.

The approved budget for the Health Group of votes for 2009 amounts to €15,468.546 million. This comprises €14,599.588 million for the Health Service Executive vote, €480.040 million for the Department of Health and Children vote, which includes funding for a range of health agencies, and €388.918 million for the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs. Planned expenditure levels for the Health sector will be considered as part of the Estimates and budgetary process for 2010. Deliberations by Government on the expenditure allocations for next year are likely to continue up until Budget time.