Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 7 February 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Health Needs of Persons with Dementia and the Services Available: Discussion

9:30 am

Mr. Andy Heffernan:

There is a significant amount of ongoing oversight in terms of implementation. I sit on a group that is facilitated by the national dementia service, which was, until last year, the NDO. It is tasked with monitoring the implementation and looking at the various services that are in place. Bits and pieces are in place and it is about building on those. We do not want to lose half a team in one part of the country because we cannot fill the other half of it. There is a bit of a dynamic going on there as well. Clinicians and representatives of the HSE are around the table, as are the likes of ourselves, together with the national dementia service, which is facilitating and co-ordinating the group.