Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

On subhead G - the dissemination of information, conferences and publications in respect of health - this refers to the Healthy Ireland initiative. The main bill under that subhead is for the Healthy Ireland survey, the first survey of the nation's health since Slán in 2007, which is under way. That will now be done every year. If we cannot measure the nation's health we cannot improve it. We are going to measure the health of the nation every year and find out how many people are smoking, how much they are drinking, whether they are obese and so on.