I joined my colleague, Senator Eileen Flynn, earlier outside the gates of Leinster House, where the National Traveller Mental Health Network held a protest calling for accountability in relation to Government commitments. In particular, the programme for Government includes plans to publish a Traveller and Roma mental health action plan. That has not happened yet, halfway through the term of this Dáil. I understand that it is to be published in the next few weeks, and I welcome that. Will the Minister, who has responsibility for public expenditure, commit to funding that action plan when it is published?

The action plan will be published in the coming weeks. It will certainly be published by September, if not sooner. The Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy O'Gorman, informs me that it will be September at the latest. Funding is a matter for the HSE and the Department of Health when they set out their priorities in the Estimates process. That process will get under way in the next number of weeks. The Government policy in this regard is clear. If we are going to publish a health action plan for Travellers, it will need to be resourced and we will do the very best we can to make sure it is adequately resourced and can be implemented. We acknowledge the very serious health issues the Travelling community are facing with regard to life expectancy, mental health challenges, addiction challenges and so on. We will do the best we can to ensure the plan is properly funded.