Barry Cowen (Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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488. To ask the Minister for Health the annual cost of administering the Health and Social Care Professionals Council; and the way in which these costs are covered (details supplied). [22026/17]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The Health and Social Care Professionals Council, Ireland's only multi-profession health and social care regulator, is being established on a phased basis. While funded in the main by the exchequer at present, it is intended that the Council will, in time, when all its registers are established, be fully self-funding through annual fee income payable by registrants. The current fee payable is €100 per annum.

The allocation for 2016 was €2.6m supplemented by €1.2m in registration fees. The allocation for 2017 is €3.1m to be supplemented by anticipated fee income of €1.4m.