Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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347. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding the HSE requested for the drugs budget for 2019; and the amount of new funding requested by the HSE. [21429/19]

Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein)
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348. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding the HSE requested for the drugs budget for 2019 for new medicines. [21430/19]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 347 and 348 together.

The HSE did not request a separate drugs and medicines budget during the 2019 Estimates process. However, the National Service Plan 2019 includes a provision of €10m for new drugs enabled by an invest to save programme.