Ms Magdalen Rogers:

I agree with the Deputy that everything needs to be on the table and I will outline the concerns of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland. There is a strategy and how it gets implemented needs to be decided plus the implementation process needs to be effective. The strategy group needs to meet on a regular basis - we cannot have the situation again where it did not meet for over a year and a half - to provide a forum in which to raise the kinds of issues that the Deputy has addressed. Given the systemic failure to implement the strategy I ask the committee to intervene and arrange a special hearing on neuro-rehabilitation services to highlight the issues.