Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail)
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821. To ask the Minister for Health the detail of the engagement between the HSE and the NTPF on the remaining €10 million of the €15 million allocation for 2017; when decisions will be taken on the allocation of this; the reason the decisions remain unmade as of December 2016 in view of the fact that it has been known since May 2016 that the NTPF was due to receive this funding in 2017; if the funding will be allocated for day case for inpatient procedures and the details of both; and the expected number of persons likely to benefit from this funding in 2017. [41088/16]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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In December 2016, I granted approval to the NTPF for the first tranche of funding, in the region of €5m, for an initiative focusing on daycase procedures. The NTPF anticipates that 2,500 of the longest waiting daycase patients will be treated under this initiative with the aim that no patient would be waiting over 18 months for a daycase procedure by June 2017. It is expected that the outsourcing of treatment will commence shortly.

In December 2016, the Department wrote to the HSE requesting that it submit in January, a Waiting List Action Plan for 2017 in respect of both the Inpatient/Daycase Waiting List and the Outpatient Waiting List. The focus of these plans should be to ensure that no patient is waiting more than 15 months on either list by the end of October 2017. The HSE has been requested to develop the Inpatient/Daycase Waiting List Action Plan in conjunction with and supported by, the NTPF's proposal for utilisation of the remaining €10m of 2017 funding for patient treatment. I expect to make known the details of both plans in the coming weeks.