Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent)
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577. To ask the Minister for Health if funding for an organisation (details supplied) will be examined in view of the underspend of dormant accounts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35467/18]

Finian McGrath (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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The overall administration of the Dormant Accounts fund is a matter for the Minister for Rural and Community Development. I am aware that his Department recently produced a review of the administration of the fund, including consideration of the underspend issue, from the fund.  

With regard to how individual measures are funded, Ministers put forward proposed measures for inclusion in annual action plans. The final annual action plan then details the measures to be funded from the dormant accounts fund. It is then a matter for each relevant Department to deliver these measures, as for any other voted expenditure. 

The most recent annual action plan was published in July 2018 and is available on that Departments website, while the next action plan will be prepared within a similar timeframe in 2019. Funding for any purpose must be detailed and approved within an annual action plans.

My Department has received approval for a number of initiatives, including four which will delivered nationally by HSE Disability Services.