James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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196. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for Parkinson’s disease; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18212/19]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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Health services are provided, and funded by the HSE. The objective of the HSE, as stated in the Health Act, is to use the resources available to it in the most beneficial, effective and efficient manner to improve, promote and protect the health and welfare of the public.

The HSE National Service Plan 2019 was published on 20 December 2018.  The Service Plan sets out the type and volume of services that the HSE will provide for a budget of over €16 billion.

Each year the HSE sets out the type and volume of health and social care services that it will provide in its National Service Plan, having regard to the level of funding provided to it.  It includes a National Scorecard of priority areas to be reported against and also a National Performance Indicator suite which sets out a wide range of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) against which progress is reported on throughout the year.  KPIs fall into one of four key quadrants: Finance, Governance and Compliance; Workforce; Access and Integration; and Quality and Safety.

As the Deputy's question relates to the provision of services, I have arranged for the question to be referred to the Health Service Executive (HSE) for direct reply to the Deputy.