Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If the Deputy wants to give me the particulars after this session on that issue, I will look into it. There is now significant funding for diabetes. Deputy Devlin, who is present, chairs the all-party committee on diabetes. Deputy Devlin and I met Diabetes Ireland before the last budget. I committed to Deputy Devlin and to Diabetes Ireland that we would put a strategy in place. One of the issues, as Deputy Pringle correctly pointed out, is that there is no national strategy in place for diabetes and there are therefore gaps in the service. I have asked the Department to work with the HSE and stakeholders because we need a new diabetes strategy. We have allocated funding through the budget for this year to start improving the services. If the Deputy wants to give me the particulars of the matter he raised, I will look into it.

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