Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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398. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide assurances that the funding announced for mental health in budget 2020 does not include the overrun of funding already announced in budget 2019 or subsequent budgets. [41909/19]

Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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HSE Mental Health services will receive €1.026 billion in funding in 2020, an increase of €234m since 2016, and an increase of €39m over 2019.

The additional €39m euro announced for mental health services in budget 2020 is additional funding and does not rely on any carry-over funding from 2019.

Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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399. To ask the Minister for Health the details of all new funding provided for mental health in budget 2020, excluding money that had been announced in budget that which will not be spent by the end of 2019. [41910/19]

Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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HSE Mental Health services will receive €1.026 billion in funding in 2020, an increase of €234m since 2016, and an increase of €39m over 2019.

The additional €39m euro announced for mental health services in budget 2020 is additional funding and does not rely on any carry-over funding from 2019.

Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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400. To ask the Minister for Health if any of the €39 million of additional funding for mental health in 2020 includes funding that had been previously announced in 2019 but had gone unspent. [41911/19]

Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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HSE Mental Health services will receive €1.026 billion in funding in 2020, an increase of €234m since 2016, and €39m over 2019.

The €39 additional million euro announced for mental health services in budget 2020 is additional funding and does not rely on any carry over funding from 2019.