Carers groups are calling on the Government to stick to its promises over the National Dementia Strategy. 

Speakers from Ireland and around the world will today attend a conference at the RDS discussing ways to improve dementia care here. 

The focus will be on the Government's commitment to a strategy tackling the condition which was published in January of 2012.

The Sonas Centre, a training and resource organisation centred on non-pharmacological intervention in dementia care, says tens of thousands of Irish families are struggling to cope with the condition.

Over 41 thousand people are living with dimentia and this figure is forecast to rise to 147 thousand by 2041.

Eighteen months have passed since the Export Report was published and the organisation claims that the data will be out of date if the  government don't act on the committments they made sooner.

Today's conference will give provide a platform to re-open the conversation and to give those suffering from dementia a voice.

Sinead Grennan, Chief Executive of Sonas resource centre, says she wants Minister Kathleen Lynch to explain why so little action has been taken since then: