Principal Officer, Older Persons Strategy

Responsibility for the Commission on Care for Older People; Adult and Children’s Palliative and end of life care policies; National Dementia Strategy; National Carers’ Strategy; Performance oversight of specialist palliative care services; Strategic oversight of healthy, active and autonomous ageing; National Focal Point and Bureau member of the UNECE Standing Working Group on Ageing; National Coordinator for the European Council Recommendation on Access to Affordable High-quality Long-term Care; National focal point for WHO-EC State of Long-term Care Monitoring & Assessment Instrument; Oversight of Age Friendly Ireland and the Healthy Age Friendly Homes Programme.