Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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422. To ask the Minister for Health when he received a copy of a report by a person (details supplied) into inequity in the funding of acute hospitals here. [42036/19]

Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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423. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE received a copy of a report (details supplied) by a person into inequity in the funding of acute hospitals here. [42037/19]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 422 and 423 together.

A report on Inequity in the Funding of Acute Hospital Groups in Ireland was completed by Dr. Anne Dee in 2015, and presented to University Hospital Limerick in January 2016. I am advised that the work was internal to University Hospital Limerick and not intended for wider circulation. In those circumstances the report was not shared with my Department at that time.

I understand that the report was a preliminary scoping document and it subsequently formed the basis of a successful HRB Applied Partnership Award. The HRB study, which is now underway, is being led by Prof Cathal Walsh, University of Limerick.