680. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health in view of the acknowledgement in the national dementia strategy that the average cost to the State per person with dementia here is €40,500 per annum as the bulk of the care for persons with dementia is provided free of charge by their family care-giver and that the informal cost of dementia to family caregivers is estimated to be €807 million per annum, if he will provide a breakdown of the €27.5 million allocated to fund the strategy; and the financial support that will be provided to family care-givers who are burdened with the most significant proportion of the cost of dementia. [1576/15]

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680. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health in view of the acknowledgement in the national dementia strategy that the average cost to the State per person with dementia here is €40,500 per annum as the bulk of the care for persons with dementia is provided free of charge by their family care-giver and that the informal cost of dementia to family caregivers is estimated to be €807 million per annum, if he will provide a breakdown of the €27.5 million allocated to fund the strategy; and the financial support that will be provided to family care-givers who are burdened with the most significant proportion of the cost of dementia. [1576/15]

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1. 14 January 2015

   National Dementia Strategy

   680. Deputy Billy Kelleher asked the Minister for Health in view of the acknowledgement in the national dementia strategy that the average cost to the State per person with dementia here is €40,500 per annum as the bulk of the care for persons with dementia is provided free of charge by their family care-giver and that the informal cost of dementia to family caregivers is estimated to be €807 million per annum, if he will provide a breakdown of the €27.5 million allocated to fund the strategy; and the financial support that will be provided to family care-givers who are burdened with the most significant proportion of the cost of dementia. [1576/15]

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