Shane Moynihan (Dublin Mid West, Fianna Fail)
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1446. To ask the Minister for Health to detail her recent engagement with the National Treatment Purchase Fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29699/25]

Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) is an independent body established under Statutory Instrument (S.I.) 179 - National Treatment Purchase Fund (Establishment) Order, 2004 as amended by S.I. No. 125 of 2007, the Health (Miscellaneous Provision) Act 2007 and the Nursing Homes Support Scheme Act (2009).

Its main functions are:

1. Arranging for the provision of hospital treatment to classes of persons determined by the Minister.
2. Collecting, collating and validating information on persons waiting for public hospital treatment.
3. Agreeing pricing arrangements with private & voluntary nursing homes under the Nursing Homes Support Scheme.

There is regular contact between officials in my Department and the Senior Management Team of the NTPF to ensure compliance with the Code of Practice and to monitor performance. This is done through formal quarterly Governance Meetings as well as through ongoing informal engagement.