Mr. Tom James:

The healthy living workstream encompasses a broad range of health and well-being initiatives and programmes, through Healthy Ireland. As mentioned, Healthy Ireland is the key prevention arm of Sláintecare. It focuses on decreasing unhealthy behaviours that contribute to chronic disease. Our aim is to ensure maximum impact for citizens in terms of avoiding hospital admissions, reducing the need for primary care services, and helping people to lead healthier lives and to stay well for as long as possible. A number of key policies and initiatives form part of Healthy Ireland. Policies include the national obesity policy and action plan, national physical activity plan and national sexual health strategy. We have a big focus on evaluation, for example, through the Healthy Ireland outcomes framework, the Healthy Ireland survey, and the Health Behaviours in School-Aged Children, HBSC. I will now hand over to my colleague, Dr. Mansergh, who will talk about some of the current priorities.