Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will make a couple of points. The Department is acutely conscious of people with lived experience when determining policy or looking, for example, at how we should change and adapt to the issues we have dealt with in the pandemic.

As I said, regarding the national implementation and monitoring committee there are 17 key people on the steering committee. There is a person there with lived experience and family involvement, which is important. I spoke about a community café in Galway. All of those working in such supports are people with lived experience, which is important.

We do not get the opportunity to collate that data from a departmental point of view because it would be done from the perspective of the HSE when it deals with service users. The one thing about Sharing the Vision is that it puts service users front and centre, especially regarding the type of care a particular person wants to receive. Many community teams throughout the country have people with lived experience, which is important. Would anybody else like to come in on that?