Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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827. To ask the Minister for Health the funding made available to deliver the health and wellbeing programme in each of the years since 2009 in tabular form; the commitments which exist to increase this funding; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10278/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Health and Wellbeing Programme in my Department is responsible for co-ordinating the implementation of Healthy Ireland which is the National Framework for Improved Health and Wellbeing 2013-2025. The Framework is based on evidence and experience from around the world which clearly shows that to create positive changes in health and well-being takes the involvement of the whole of Government and all of society working in unison. On that basis, it is not possible to identify in totality how much funding is currently spent on improving health and wellbeing across all Government Departments and agencies and in wider society.

Since Healthy Ireland was launched in March 2013, expenditure on its implementation from within the budget of the Department of Health has amounted to the following:

2013 - €89,315.07;

2014 - €586,470.90;

2015 - €607,706.83.02; and

2016 - €48,305.99 (to date)

In addition to the expenditure noted above, other expenditure arising within the Department could also be described as "Healthy Ireland" depending on classification.

The Deputy may also wish to note that expenditure arising in the HSE, particularly in the Health and Wellbeing Division, could also be described as implementation of Healthy Ireland. However, it is not possible to disaggregate expenditure on promoting and improving health and well-being generally from overall HSE expenditure. Again, for example, within overall HSE expenditure, and in addition to work which is an integral part of the Health and Wellbeing Division, a large component of health promotion and improvement work takes place across the acute and primary care services as part of normal day to day activity. There is also expenditure arising in relation to communications campaigns by the HSE.