Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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717. To ask the Minister for Health when the €3 million of funding for the development of hospices in Drogheda, County Cavan and the midlands for palliative and end of life care will be allocated. [17696/22]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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In December 2021, I announced a once off allocation of €10million for palliative and end-of-life services. Of the €10 million, €3 million will be equally distributed to progress the development of hospices in Drogheda, Cavan and the Midlands which are currently in the planning stages. An allocation of €1 million for each of these hospice developments will fund architectural plans, planning costs and some initial groundworks as appropriate.

The HSE National Lead for Palliative Care and the respective CHO Heads of Primary Care are working in partnership with the eight local fundraising and philanthropic organisations in the Midlands and North East to progress these developments.

Funding has been released to the CHOs 1 & 8 and will be available for drawdown by the respective organisations as and when required.