Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)
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172. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dementia advisers to be recruited in 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33451/20]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The HSE's National Dementia Office supports the Dementia Adviser Service set up by the Alzheimer Society of Ireland in 2014 to provide a locally-based and individualised information, signposting and emotional support service to people who are concerned about their cognitive health and/or have a diagnosis of dementia and for their families and friends, at all stages of their journey, from diagnosis through to end-of-life. Budget 2020 provided for the recruitment of ten additional dementia advisers to expand the service provided by the existing eight advisers. In 2021, a further 11 dementia advisers will be recruited.