Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail)
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615. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the State has invested in Alzheimer's disease research in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37648/16]

Helen McEntee (Meath East, Fine Gael)
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The Health Research Board (HRB) is the lead agency in Ireland responsible for supporting and funding health research, information and evidence, with a mission to improve people’s health and to enhance healthcare delivery. Between 2011 and 2015 the HRB has made investments totalling almost €9.2 million in research focused on many aspects of dementia/Alzheimer’s. These awards have been funded either through HRB competitive open calls, which do not ring-fence funding for any one disease area, but are open to all disease areas, or in collaboration with Atlantic Philanthropies, the Irish Alzheimer’s Society, the Medical Research Charities Group or European Joint Programming initiatives. A list of dementia related projects to which the HRB made funding commitments between 2011 and 2015 is set out in the tables.