Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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185. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the findings and recommendations of the review conducted by his Department in conjunction with the Health Service Executive of the corporate functions and resources, staff and budget of the various corporate, support and shared services as they currently exist within the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48731/14]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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In order to effectively reorganise the health service, it is necessary to have a clear, accurate understanding of how resources of all kinds are currently allocated. In the context of the current restructuring programme, particularly community health organisations and hospital groups, my department has asked the HSE to carry out a review in 2015 of how staff, current and capital expenditure, and capital resources are allocated across the whole of the HSE.

This review is an expanded version of the commitment made in Future Health in relation to the review of corporate resources, which has now been subsumed into the wider restructuring exercise. The review will help to inform decisions as to how these resources might best be distributed in the future.