National Dementia Strategy Implementation

Dáil Éireann Debate, Tuesday - 8 November 2016

Tuesday, 8 November 2016

Ceisteanna (372)

Mary Butler

Ceist:

372. Deputy Mary Butler asked the Minister for Health the status of his Department’s mid-term review of progress in the national dementia strategy; and when it will be completed and published. [33621/16]

Freagraí scríofa

Minister of State at the Department of Health

The National Dementia Strategy will be reviewed in the first half of 2017. This review will examine progress to date and will consider how any issues arising should be addressed.

A National Dementia Strategy Monitoring Group, chaired by the Department of Health and including representatives of the Alzheimer Society of Ireland, clinicians, academics, the HSE's National Dementia Office, and those affected by the condition, is overseeing the Strategy's implementation, and this will include oversight of the coming Mid-Term Review.