Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
Question:33 Mrs. Geoghegan-Quinn asked the Minister for Health the percentage saving each health board has been asked to find in 1996. [2706/96]
Written Answers. - Health Board Savings.
Limerick East): As the Deputy is aware the Government set out its targets in relation to the growth in public expenditure last June. As part of this process each Minister was asked to identify proposals to reduce his or her gross non-capital spending, on a continuing basis, by 0.7 per cent of his or her approved level of expenditure. In accordance with this decision and after consultations between my Department and the chief executive officers of the health boards, each board was required to achieve savings equal to 0.7 per cent of their 1995 approved level of expenditure, in 1996. It was agreed by Government that these savings would be retained within the health services as a contribution towards funding the further development of services in line with the Programme for Government, A Government of Renewal.