Eoghan Murphy (Dublin South East, Fine Gael)
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Question 231: To ask the Minister for Health his views on the possibility of whether or not cuts to palliative care were contained in the health budget. [1757/12]

Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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The HSE has statutory responsibility for the delivery of health and personal social services, and the question of funding specific care programmes, or individual non-statutory care providers, can only be addressed in the context of finalising the HSE Service Plan 2012. The allocation of funding across care groups, including Palliative Care, has yet to be agreed. As was the case in previous years, the Executive will engage with voluntary providers to discuss services levels for 2012, in line with resources available. A focus of such discussions will be to identify savings designed to have minimum effects on the provision of services to patients.