Mr. Colm Desmond:

I wish to clarify the position on dementia for Deputy Catherine Murphy. The overall programme has about €1 million for a number of pilot projects, including Living Well with Dementia Stillorgan-Blackrock, Kinsale Community Response to Dementia, Community Action on Dementia Mayo, and assisted technology libraries. All of these have very substantial amounts of funding, in the region of €300,000 each. The Mayo programme receives €100,000. An evaluation of those pilots, costing €50,000, in respect of which I want to correct myself, was built in from the beginning to see how they would do, because of the nature of this particular measure.

The national dementia strategy is currently being evaluated. It was decided that the €50,000 was not needed and that the evaluation of the dementia strategy could cover the relevant pilot projects.