The Office of the State Pathologist (OSP) provides the State with a national forensic pathology service and a forensic pathologist is on duty, twenty-four hours a day, each day of the year.
In response to the Deputy, the budget allocation for the OSP from 2022 to 2024 is set out below:
Budget allocation for OSP 2022 -2024
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2022
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2023
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2024
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Pay
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€888,000
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€1,314,000
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€1,339,000
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Non-Pay
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€239,000
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€239,000
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€333,000
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Total
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€1,127,000
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€1,553,000
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€1,672,000
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Note: in 2023 a supplementary budget of €100,000 was required on Pay, increasing the OSP’s total budget to €1,653,000
For further information, the 2022 Annual Report of the Office of the State Pathologist has been published on gov.ie - Office of the State Pathologist (www.gov.ie). It is expected that the 2023 report will be published there in the second half of this year.