Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Sharing the Vision – A Mental Health Policy for Everyone, Ireland’s national mental health policy, aims to enhance the provision of mental health services and supports across a broad continuum, from mental health promotion, prevention and early intervention to acute and specialist mental health service delivery, during the period 2020-2030.

The implementation of Sharing the Vision is overseen by the National Implementation and Monitoring Committee (NIMC), independently chaired by Ms Catherine Brogan, which is collectively responsible for driving and overseeing the long-term implementation of the policy.

The current Implementation Plan for Sharing the Vision was developed under the oversight of the NIMC to guide the implementation of the policy's 100 recommendations during the period of 2022-2024, and will be completed by the end of 2024. A key task for the NIMC in 2024 is the development of its successor plan (2025- 2027).

The development of the next Implementation Plan will be informed by learnings from the first implementation cycle, as well as incorporating implementation science expertise and taking into account on-going and future developments relevant to the delivery of mental health services, including the regional restructuring of the Health Service Executive (HSE), whole-of-government, whole-of-system cooperation, recruitment and budget considerations, and the wider policy landscape and interdependencies across other government Departments in respect of Sharing the Vision.

Another priority for the NIMC in 2024 is the delivery of short-term recommendations according to the current Implementation Plan. The development of the next Implementation Plan (2025-2027) will be informed by the progression of all recommendations over the coming year. Regular Implementation Status Reports for Sharing the Vision, along with the NIMC's Analysis documents, are published on the NIMC webpage on the Department of Health's website.

As of the latest published Implementation Status report, relating to end-Q4 2023, 79 of Sharing the Vision's 100 recommendations are marked as "on track" or with "minor delivery issue". 18 are marked "paused", "not started yet" or with "major delivery issue". 3 recommendations are marked as "completed". Details on the status of each of these recommendations, including mitigations of risks, delays and delivery issues, etc. are published in the Sharing the Vision Policy Implementation Status Reports and associated NIMC Analysis documents on the Department of Health website, here:

www.gov.ie/en/publication/8f821-national-implementation-and-monitoring-committee-steering-committee/#sharing-the-vision-reports.