Health Services

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 23 May 2023

Tuesday, 23 May 2023

Questions (833)

Mick Barry

Question:

833. Deputy Mick Barry asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of implementing the Sharing the Vision strategy in a full year. [24805/23]

Written answers

Minister of State at the Department of Health

Sharing the Vision - A Mental Health Policy for Everyone, Ireland’s national mental health policy, was published in June 2020. Sharing the Vision aims to enhance the provision of mental health services and supports across a broad continuum, from mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention to acute and specialist mental health service delivery, during the period 2020-2030.

Sharing the Vision Implementation Plan 2022 – 2024 was collaboratively developed by the HSE and the Department of Health, overseen by the National Implementation and Monitoring Committee (NIMC). The NIMC is tasked with the implementation monitoring of the policy. The Plan sets out individual programme pathways of implementation for each of the 100 policy recommendations for the next three years.

Sharing the Vision, has a ten-year implementation roadmap, overseen by the National Implementation and Monitoring Committee (NIMC). There is no single set implementation budget for the work required to implement the full programme of recommendations or workstreams as responsibility for implementation is spread across different care areas, including primary care, mental health planning, mental health services, HSE social inclusion, among others. There is a core operational budget in HSE Mental Health Operations of €646,000 for Sharing the Vision programme implementation which covers service improvement lead salary costs and other expenses that arise, for example the Sharing the Vision learning event in March 2023.

Any additional funding required for developments under this strategy will be based on the NIMC’s work plan, which will identify priority developments relevant to each care area for each year. This funding will then be sought as part of the estimates process and in close conjunction with the development of the HSE National Service Plan each year.