Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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404. To ask the Minister for Health the annual throughput of patients and patient nights, the annual running costs and the average daily costs of a patient's throughputs and the average cost of a patient night, and the percentage over-capacity in University Hospital Galway, in St. James's Hospital and in Tallaght hospital, County Dublin, in tabular form. [5257/16]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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405. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to address the lack of publicly available qualitative information in Ireland that inhibits detailed analysis of hospital performance so as to enable a focus of funding on performing hospital groups; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5258/16]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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The HSE Service Plan for 2016 sets out in detail expected performance levels for hospitals in Ireland. These National Key Performance Indicators consist of: measures which are concerned with the quality and safety of care provided in hospitals; KPIs which measure access by patients to care; as well as KPIs concerned with Financial and HR performance.

HSE performance against these KPIs are reported on a monthly basis in the HSE performance reports, published on the HSE website. The HSE reports performance against these KPIs at a national level, by hospital group and hospital.

Activity based funding is being rolled out during 2016 in respect of acute hospitals. It is an approach to resource allocation whereby hospitals will be funded based on the quantity and quality of services delivered by the hospital.

As this is a service matter, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly. If you have not received a reply from the HSE within 15 working days please contact my Private Office and my officials will follow the matter up.