Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent)
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923. To ask the Minister for Health the position regarding funding for a hospital (details supplied) in Dublin 12. [33506/14]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital Crumlin is an acute paediatric hospital and is one of the three children’s hospitals that form the Children’s Hospital Group. It is responsible for providing tertiary care services for children all over Ireland. The hospital also serves a large urban catchment area to which it delivers primary and secondary care.

The hospital specialties include cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery, genetic disorders, oncology, haematology, complex airways diseases, rheumatology, burns and gastroenterology. The HSE has invested in developments at the hospital in recent years including: rheumatology, cardiac services, intensive and critical care, anaesthesia, dermatology, child health and emergency medicine. In addition, the hospital was supported financially by the Special Delivery Unit to manage its waiting lists.

The hospital has a 2014 Health Service Executive Budget Allocation of €113.255m. It has not received any specific additional funding in 2014 from the HSE and received its share of relevant budget measures in line with all other acute hospitals. The HSE regularly meets with the hospital to monitor its performance in terms of managing its allocation and service provision.

The HSE has advised the Department of Health that it is working with the Children's Hospital Group to identify key service development issues and will progress these as part of the Estimates process in the development of the National Service Plan for 2015. This will then be considered in the context of competing demands for the overall resources available in 2015 and beyond.