Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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167. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new positions that will be created in the new budget period; and the details of the discipline and level of these positions. [42646/18]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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In 2019 Health will have funding of €16.360 billion in gross current expenditure and €667m in Capital, an increase of €1,521m (10.2%) on the 2018 Current Expenditure budget, and €174m on Capital expenditure.

The Health Service Executive is currently in the process of preparing the National Service Plan for 2019, in consultation with officials from my Department. This will inform the number of new positions that will need to be created in 2019.