Written answers
Tuesday, 29 April 2025
Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Health Services
Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
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2303. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of funding provided for stroke services in 2023, 2024 and 2025 as part of the National Stroke Strategy 2022-2027. [20146/25]
Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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The HSE National Stroke Strategy 2022-2027 aims to modernise and reform stroke services in line with Sláintecare policy and address the challenges facing Ireland from population ageing and the predicted increase in the total number of strokes right across Europe, including Ireland. The strategy provides a blueprint for required investment in stroke services over the five-year period from 2022-2027.
This government is fully committed to supporting improvements and advances in stroke services. To date €13.5m in funding allocated to the HSE National Stroke Strategy since its publication in 2022 as outlined in the table below.
| Year | €m | |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.6 | recurring funding that was allocated in New Service Developments (NSD) in Budget 2023. |
| 2024 | 3.7 | Existing Levels of Service (ELS) recurring funding in Budget 2024. |
| 1.2 | €600,000 allocated to the Strategy for New Service Developments, this has a full year cost of €1.2 for 2025. | |
| 2025 | 5.0 | New Service Development Funding allocated in Budget 2025. |
| Total | €13.5m |
Separately, €600,000 has been allocated to support the Irish Heart Foundation Stroke Connect service. This service complements hospital services by supporting survivors of stroke when they are discharged, helping them make lifestyle changes to self-manage their condition and giving them a better chance of leading an independence.
I am fully committed to making further progress on implementing the stroke strategy and will continue to work with the HSE to ensure its successful implementation to further reduce mortality from stroke, as well as supporting survivors of stroke to live as independently as possible in their communities.
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