Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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214. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 605 of 14 April 2016 (details supplied), if he will provide in view of the recent Supplementary Estimate for health, updated figures of the budget allocation for 2016 for each public and voluntary hospital in tabular form [21870/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The 2016 Revised Estimates were approved on 7 July. Following this approval, the Department of Health revised the approved level of net non-capital expenditure for the HSE. On receipt of this approval, the HSE advised the Directorates of their revised budget for the year. The Directorates, including the Acute Directorate, will in turn prepare financial plans, with actions, to demonstrate budget compliance. Patient safety and access to services will continue to be priorities, and the targets and levels of service set out in the National Service Plan remain. Over the last two weeks I have been meeting with the Chairs and CEOs of each of the Hospital Groups. The purpose these meetings has been to discuss the process of appointment to the Hospital Group Boards, service delivery and patient safety, as well as to emphasise the importance of budgetary compliance by Hospital Groups and individual hospitals.

The financial plans and profiles based on the Revised Estimates will be prepared from a bottom up basis at individual hospital level. For this reason, they are not yet finalised. My Department will continue to work closely with the HSE, and ensure that the new expenditure levels are reflected in the HSE Performance Reports as soon as possible.