Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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283. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has set aside in its annual Estimates a budget for spending on preventative health, education and promotion; and the criteria for private entities to be provided grants for this purpose. [4827/17]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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284. To ask the Minister for Health his views on a departmental policy for providing grants to entities which have the aim to promote preventative health education for non-communicable chronic disease; and the way in which this policy will be administered. [4828/17]

Marcella Corcoran Kennedy (Offaly, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 283 and 284 together.

The HSE, through the Health and Wellbeing Division, which received an increase in budget in 2017, funds a large number of organisations to provide a range of services including education, awareness, advocacy and support in order to tackle the causes of preventable chronic disease.

There is no mechanism for the Department of Health to provide grants such as envisaged to private entities.