Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will hand over to the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, shortly. The first point to make is that it is not three Departments, it is one Department. It is the Department of Health and we have mental health, Healthy Ireland, disability, homelessness and addiction and many other areas. The Ministers of State, Deputies Feighan, Rabbitte and Butler, and I work together and there is joined-up thinking. For example, the Minister of State, Deputy Feighan, and I, with the Taoiseach, last week launched a really cool Healthy Ireland initiative in regard to wellness, with Sláintecare funding, but part of that was Your Mental Health, so the dots are being joined. There is a brilliant initiative, of which I am sure the Senator is aware, in terms of protecting people in homelessness and addiction from Covid. Again, people are being brought in and they then have medical and mental health supports wrapped around them. I could not agree with the Senator more. Where the joined-up thinking happens, the results for the citizen are great. I will pass over to the Minister of State, Deputy Butler.