Written answers

Tuesday, 16 October 2018

Department of Health

Mental Health Services Funding

Photo of Pat BuckleyPat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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416. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the health budget for 2019 that will be used to cover overspend in the health service from the previous years; if mental health funding will be protected from same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42028/18]

Photo of Jim DalyJim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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The Department is engaging closely with the HSE to ensure that every effort is made to maximise cost containment and cost avoidance measures and identify a series of mitigating actions that do not impact on the ability of the HSE to deliver on the planned activity levels set out in the NSP 2018. While it is anticipated that there may be some areas that will experience overruns in 2018, it is too early yet to be definitive in terms of the final out turn for the health services at year end.

A Supplementary Estimate will be provided in 2018 to the HSE, and this funding will carry forward into 2019.

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