Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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461. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the Traveller health action plan. [30498/19]

Catherine Byrne (Dublin South Central, Fine Gael)
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Under the National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy, the HSE is committed to developing and implementing a detailed action plan to continue to address the health needs of Travellers, using a social determinants of health approach.

The HSE has circulated a draft of the action plan to stakeholders and has received a number of detailed comments and observations. The HSE has outlined a process which will lead to the completion of the plan in quarter 4 2019, taking into account the feedback received. The process will include liaising with Traveller representative groups and other stakeholders in finalising the plan.

The Department of Health is fully committed to providing the leadership and resources to ensure the implementation of the plan. To this end, the Department will host a workshop on the plan with senior management to tease out any policy and resource issues arising from the action plan.

I am very supportive of the health action plan and look forward to receiving the plan in quarter 4, 2019.

Fiona O'Loughlin (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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462. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the implementation of agreed HSE assigned actions under the second national strategy on domestic, sexual and gender-based violence 2016-2021. [30499/19]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The National Strategy on Domestic, Sexual and Gender-based Violence 2016-2021 is a whole of Government response to Domestic and Sexual violence and contains a number of health-related actions assigned to the HSE. As the implementation of these actions is a matter for the HSE the Deputy's question has been referred to them for attention and direct reply.