Written answers
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
Department of Health and Children
Positive Ageing Strategy
11:00 pm
Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)
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Question 179: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when the first inter-departmental group charged with managing the National Positive Ageing Strategy first met; the number of times it has met since that date; when the promised public consultation on the National Positive Ageing Strategy is due to commence; the form that consultation will take; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16235/09]
Áine Brady (Kildare North, Fianna Fail)
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The cross-Departmental group to assist in the preparation of the National Positive Ageing Strategy comprises representative from ten Government departments as well as the Central Statistics Office. Formal meetings of the group took place on 9 December 2008 and 21 January 2009.
At the moment I am finalising my plans for the public consultation process to inform the strategy, the details of which I will be announcing in the next week or so.
The intention is that the staff of the National Council on Ageing and Older People will be subsumed into the Department of Health and Children and will join the Office for Older People to support the preparation of the new strategy. The legislation to dissolve the council, the Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2009, is now at Second Stage in the Dáil.
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