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‹ Ceisteanna—Questions. Oral Answers. - Public Health Administration. Public health administration expenditure
Summary
Dr. O’Connell asked what share of health expenditure went to administration. Haughey said the calculation included health-board management and support staff and overheads, and gave the 1977 cost as £6 million.
asked the Minister for Health the percentage of current public health expenditure devoted to administration in each of the last three years.
Comment on this
Administration costs represented the following percentages of total health costs for the years mentioned:
In arriving at these percentages the term "administration" has been taken as applying to the personnel of the Department of Health, management personnel and their immediate support staff at health agency level and appropriate overheads.