Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 July 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed)
10:40 am
Ms Barbara O'Connell:
One does not need a national rehabilitation hospital; one needs to be rehabilitated in one's community. Fundamentally, one wants to go home, return to one's job and live with one's family. Although one learns some skills when based in a centre, one needs to relearn them at home. One needs to be taught how to manage one's temper, for example. It could be a case of managing the cognitive memory problems that occur as a result of a brain injury. One needs to do this in the context of one's circumstances — one could be a politician, for example — and one must be taught how to manage-----
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