Dáil Éireann díospóireacht -
Wednesday, 22 Jan 1997

Vol. 473 No. 4

Written Answers. - Hospice Funding.

Michael P. Kitt

Ceist:

182 Mr. M. Kitt asked the Minister for Health the funding to be provided for the Galway Hospice in 1997; if this funding will be ongoing; if 12 beds will be commissioned for cancer care; and if any further information is required by his Department. [1569/97]

Minister for Health (Mr. Noonan,

Limerick East): My Department's letter of determination to the Western Health Board for 1997 included an additional revenue allocation of £500,000 in respect of the Galway Hospice Foundation. This figure is over and above the sum of £100,000 already allocated in 1996.

Payment of the extra funding is subject to my Department's approving whatever service agreement may be reached between the Western Health Board and the Hospice. I look forward to receiving the board's proposals in due course.