Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 February 2018
Public Accounts Committee
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 7 - Dormant Accounts Fund
9:00 am
Mr. Colm Desmond:
No. The national dementia strategy would have allowed for overall review of spending in the dementia area. Therefore, it was logical that that was felt the most likely place to carry out assessment of dementia spending overall. Funding for the dementia project was one of three in the 2016 action plan. Many of these were multi-year projects. Funding was spent on establishing a mobile health screening unit and, separately, for an intercultural health project for refugees. The funding for the intercultural health project for refugees has largely been spent. The mobile screening unit is going on until 2019, so the dementia funding was transferred into that project.
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