Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 June 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Update on Sláintecare: Department of Health

Ms Laura Magahy:

We would love to provide the Deputy with a note on the healthy communities and Mr. Straton will give more detail. It is very exciting. In the last five months, we have got agreement from the local authorities to roll this out at a really local level through the local community development committees, LCDC, structure. We will appoint a healthy communities co-ordinator for each LCDC structure that are aligned with the social inclusion and community activation programme, SICAP, areas. At national level, we have the agreement of each of the Departments that they will meet and ensure that their respective resources, whether in housing, education, social care, and children, and work together, somewhat like the DEIS model, to focus on healthy outcomes for the people in those communities and ensure that all the resources are being targeted. It is really exciting. It is a good example of what population resource allocation can do. We have the funding for it and the staff are being hired now. We have the agreements of the Departments, local authorities and all the pieces are ready to roll-out. They will start on the ground, in real life, in September.

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