Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 February 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with Co-operation and Working Together

Mr. Bill Forbes:

On the health and well-being, that co-sited project has successfully closed. It reached its full target of over 10,000 beneficiaries. The Deputy's question was around the community facilitators. The target was 40 and we trained 60. We exceeded that number as well. That was with the support, obviously, of the SEUPB through some very difficult times through Covid. We have had to go for a number of requests for change to our delivery model, our timelines and the targeted community we were trying to reach. Many of these people were not engaging and we had to look at new platforms of e-health and telemedicine to bring those targets and those beneficiaries up to what we had promised.

On the PEACE PLUS piece, we are working very hard with all the strategy groups North and South and we give assurances on that. We believe that funding will be called in 2022 and we are working tirelessly to bring that to a phase of complete implementation. We do not see that being referred any later than the end of 2022.

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