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Tuesday, 20 June 2017

Department of Health

Health Research Board Expenditure

Photo of Aindrias MoynihanAindrias Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail)
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1044. To ask the Minister for Health the annual expenditure on health care related research; the annual expenditure into the components of Science Foundation Ireland, the Health Research Board, the National Cancer Registry, the hospital payment enquiry scheme system and its successor and all other recipients combined; and the overall expenditure in terms of finance between the largest ten institutions or beneficiaries in each of the years 2007 to 2016 and to date in 2017. [26674/17]

Photo of Simon HarrisSimon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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My Department supports health research primarily through the Health Research Board (HRB). The HRB is a statutory body under the aegis of my Department and is the lead agency in Ireland supporting and funding health research. For 2017 the HRB's funding from my Department is €42.054 million.

The HRB has provided details on its spending on research awards for the period 2007 to 2017. This information setting out overall annual total expenditure and a breakdown of the top ten beneficiaries for each year, except for 2017 which only covers the period from January to May, is set out in tabular form below:

20072008
Total Health Award Payments40,416,328Total Health Award Payments43,281,118
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN7,331,132TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN9,992,971
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN5,794,109UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN7,520,123
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND5,399,467ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND5,242,720
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK5,031,067UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK5,134,340
NUI GALWAY3,808,019NUI GALWAY3,207,512
ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL1,766,394MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY1,588,119
DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY1,136,403ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL1,561,175
BEAUMONT HOSPITAL1,029,116 BEAUMONT HOSPITAL894,697
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL GALWAY1,019,692MATER MISERICORDIAE HOSPITAL879,825
MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY1,017,606UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL GALWAY857,756
20092010
Total Health Award Payments40,126,940Total Health Award Payments37,534,829
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN10,253,037TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN9,027,563
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN6,116,916ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND5,566,426
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK5,125,816UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK5,338,616
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND4,996,974NUI GALWAY4,272,677
NUI GALWAY3,293,945UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN4,023,454
MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY1,603,713MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY1,676,317
MATER MISERICORDIAE HOSPITAL1,486,271DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY989,250
BEAUMONT HOSPITAL1,053,667MATER MISERICORDIAE HOSPITAL875,776
ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL1,048,873IRISH CLINICAL ONCOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP759,349
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE HOSPITAL GALWAY893,312BEAUMONT HOSPITAL588,149
20112012
Total Health Award Payments32,581,716Total Health Award Payments33,205,244
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN6,744,555TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN7,400,266
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND5,820,594ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND5,203,800
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK5,219,973UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK4,726,462
NUI GALWAY3,636,726UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN4,007,254
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN2,133,477NUI GALWAY3,707,955
MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY1,439,309IRISH CLINICAL ONCOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP2,082,000
ST VINCENT'S UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL1,248,862MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY1,475,762
IRISH CLINICAL ONCOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP803,653DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY923,078
ST JAMES'S HOSPITAL621,106NATIONAL CANCER REGISTRY581,445
OUR LADY'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CRUMLIN558,114UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK530,678
20132014
Total Health Award Payments35,930,708Total Health Award Payments38,242,121
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN8,452,618NUI GALWAY13,108,905
NUI GALWAY7,276,886TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN6,985,105
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND5,588,585UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK4,158,880
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN4,051,912ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND3,854,761
IRISH CLINICAL ONCOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP3,748,000IRISH CLINICAL ONCOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP3,748,000
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK3,584,829UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN2,655,846
UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK993,088UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK601,092
MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY716,193DUBLIN DENTAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL421,874
OUR LADY'S HOSPICE AND CARE SERVICES353,919MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY409,822
DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY349,205OUR LADY'S HOSPICE AND CARE SERVICES353,919
20152016
Total Health Award Payments35,731,721Total Health Award Payments35,940,798
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN6,939,112TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN8,409,616
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND6,051,408ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND7,180,020
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK5,566,707NUI GALWAY5,199,377
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN4,395,612IRISH CLINICAL ONCOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP3,201,011
NUI GALWAY4,173,034UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK2,972,889
IRISH CLINICAL ONCOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP3,808,000UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN2,878,704
UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK728,809UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK1,258,882
MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND558,000MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND785,000
DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY519,915DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY710,324
MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY490,571MAYNOOTH UNIVERSITY702,120
2017 - January to May
Total Health Award Payments12,423,345
IRISH CLINICAL ONCOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP2,998,400
TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN2,649,448
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN1,755,375
NUI GALWAY1,105,724
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK1,099,389
MOLECULAR MEDICINE IRELAND750,000
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS IN IRELAND559,828
UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK265,672
ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE228,959
DUBLIN DENTAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL117,393
The National Cancer Registry is a public body, established in 1991, to collect and classify information on all cancer cases which occur in Ireland. So far this year (Jan-May 2017) it has received a total of €1.020m funding from my Department. Additionally set out below in tabular form is the funding the National Cancer Registry received from my Department over the past ten years.
Year-
2007€2.115
2008€3.037
2009€2.477
2010€2.367
2011€2.530
2012€2.475
2013€2.444
2014€2.498
2015€2.440
2016€2.614

The funding of Science Foundation Ireland is a matter for my colleague the Tánaiste and Minister for Enterprise and Innovation.

Health research projects in Ireland can also take place in many other fora including universities and hospitals. Information on these research projects and their expenditure levels would not be routinely collected by my Department.

Finally, the Deputy also enquires about the "hospital payment enquiry scheme system". I understand that the Deputy may be referring to the Hospital In-Patient Enquiry (HIPE) scheme.HIPE, which is operated by the Healthcare Pricing Office in the HSE, is a health information system designed to collect demographic, clinical and administrative information on discharges and deaths from public acute hospitals nationally. HIPE is the only source of morbidity statistics available nationally for public acute hospital services in Ireland. All acute public hospitals participating in HIPE report over 1.5 million discharges annually. HIPE information is used by the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive in the planning, provision and measurement of acute hospital services. In addition, HIPE data in aggregated form, thus ensuring patient confidentiality, can be used by researchers in conducting health research.

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