Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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120. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocation for sequential cochlear implants for 2017; if he will confirm that this funding will not be reduced or removed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33079/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Beaumont Hospital is the national centre for delivering Ireland's national cochlear implant programme, with surgical procedures for children under 6 carried out in Children's University Hospital, Temple Street. €3.22M was provided in the 2014 National Service Plan to provide sequential and bilateral implants, and the 2015 and 2016 National Service Plans provided for the continuation of development of the service.

The 2016 level of funding and service will continue in 2017.