asked the Minister for Health the amount which was spent out of the Exchequer during the financial year 1961-62, and the estimated amount to be spent during the financial year 1962-63, on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis in human beings.
Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Expenditure on Tuberculosis Services.
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Exchequer expenditure on the health services, including the tuberculosis services, consists of Health Services Grant payments to health authorities under the Health Services (Financial Provisions) Act, 1947; and the manner of payment of grant instalments to health authorities does not permit of precise allocation to a particular service of amounts of grant paid to health authorities during a particular year. The amount payable from the Exchequer on the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of tuberculosis in respect of the year 1961/62 is estimated at £875,000 and in respect of the year 1962/63 is estimated at £862,000, representing, in each case, one-half of the health authorities' estimated expenditure on those services during the years concerned.