Responsibility for the provision of health services in County Clare is a matter for the Mid-Western Health Board in the first instance. The board has advised my Department that dementia services in Clare are currently under review and that a number of different groups, including Carrigoran House and the Clare Branch of the Alzheimer's Society, have made submissions in this regard. The board has further advised that these submissions are currently being examined in the context of the board's overall plan for the development of dementia services in County Clare and that a proposal for the development of dementia services in County Clare will be forwarded to my Department in due course.