Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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451. To ask the Minister for Health if the €45,000 paid to the master of the National Maternity Hospital ​in addition to their salary as a medical consultant derives from a hospital fund set up to pay medical staff based on capitation ​fees ​paid by the State in respect of obstetric beds plus other income; if so, the source of that income; if that fund, howsoever constituted, pays a percentage to the master, the assistant masters and the medical consultants; if so, the percentage which is payable to each of the aforementioned categories; and if none of the foregoing applies to the €45,000 ​paid to the master, the source or sources from which that payment derives. [21813/17]

Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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452. To ask the Minister for Health if the master of the National Maternity Hospital is allocated 20% of the hospital's private gynaecological patients and caesarean section patients; if not, the current percentage; and his plans to support the mastership system as agreed for the new National Maternity Hospital. [21814/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 451 and 452 together.

The National Maternity Strategy notes that the Mastership system is unique to the three Dublin maternity hospitals and has served the country well. While the system may evolve over time with the changing governance structures for maternity services, there are no plans to change the Mastership system at present. In relation to the other queries raised, as these are operational matters, I have asked the HSE to respond to you directly.