Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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20. To ask the Minister for Health for a report on Sharing the Vision: A Mental Health Policy for Everyone' Implementation Plan 2025 - 2027; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34708/25]

Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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Sharing the Vision is Ireland’s 10-year ambitious, multifaceted national mental health policy to enhance the provision of mental health services and supports for the whole of the population, through a focus on the needs of the individual. The policy recognises the need for a whole-of-government approach to the delivery of mental health services and supports, making mental health everybody's business, not just that of the Department of Health or the HSE.

The policy contains 100 recommendations for the development of Irish mental health services and supports to be delivered from 2020 to 2030. The policy is currently guided by the Implementation Plan for 2025-2027, a detailed and comprehensive document which I launched in Dublin Castle April of this year, and which is available to review on the Department of Health website.

Sharing the Vision aims to put the people who use services and their families to the front and centre of our focus and I want to acknowledge the involvement of lived and living experience in the design, delivery and oversight of Sharing the Vision and of the new implementation plan.

I will publish the next scheduled twice-annual policy implementation progress report for Sharing the Vision in the coming days. All previous reports are available to view on the Department of Health website, ensuring accountability and transparency in policy delivery.